2009
DOI: 10.3233/wia-2009-0171
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The price of stability in selfish scheduling games

Abstract: Game theory has gained popularity as an approach to analysing and understanding distributed systems with selfinterested agents. Central to game theory is the concept of Nash equilibrium as a stable state (solution) of the system, which comes with a price − the loss in efficiency. The quantification of the efficiency loss is one of the main research concerns. In this paper, we study the quality and computational characteristics of the best Nash equilibrium in two selfish scheduling models: the congestion model … Show more

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“…The efficiency of PNE can be measured by the PoA and the PoS [23], [24]. We formally define these two ratios as follows:…”
Section: Efficiency Of the Proposed Game And Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The efficiency of PNE can be measured by the PoA and the PoS [23], [24]. We formally define these two ratios as follows:…”
Section: Efficiency Of the Proposed Game And Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We prove that O(Ω, P r, (P i ) i∈N , (s i ) i∈N ) cannot be a subset of the set of optimal schedules Σ * (Λ), which contradicts (2). We proceed by considering all subsets of Σ * (Λ).…”
Section: Theorem 2 (Impossibility Of Implementation)mentioning
confidence: 95%
“…In order to appropriately discuss the rapidly growing literature that studies coordinating mechanisms for supply chains and competitive scheduling environments we note that our definition of implementation can also be phrased in terms of the price of stability. 2 Fixing a mechanism and an evaluation/objective criterion, the price of stability is the ratio between the value of the best Nash equilibrium and the optimal value. Then, a mechanism implements optimal schedules if for each outsourcing problem the price of stability equals one.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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