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2009
ACM
145views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Intrinsic robustness of the price of anarchy
The price of anarchy (POA) is a worst-case measure of the inefficiency of selfish behavior, defined as the ratio of the objective function value of a worst Nash equilibrium of a g...
Tim Roughgarden
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
DA
2010
141views more  DA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Optimal Static Hedging of Volumetric Risk in a Competitive Wholesale Electricity Market
In competitive wholesale electricity markets, regulated load serving entities (LSEs) and marketers with default service contracts have obligations to serve fluctuating load at pre...
Yumi Oum, Shmuel S. Oren
CSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptation to Dynamic Resource Availability in Ad Hoc Grids through a Learning Mechanism
Ad-hoc Grids are highly heterogeneous and dynamic networks, one of the main challenges of resource allocation in such environments is to find mechanisms which do not rely on the ...
Behnaz Pourebrahimi, Koen Bertels
SIGECOM
2000
ACM
155views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2000»
14 years 1 days ago
Competitive bundling of categorized information goods
We introduce an information bundling model that addresses two important but relatively unstudied issues in real markets for information goods: automated customization of content b...
Jeffrey O. Kephart, Scott A. Fay