We study social cost losses in Facility Location games, where n selfish agents install facilities over a network and connect to them, so as to forward their local demand (expressed...
We consider optimization problems of the form (S, cost), where S is a clause set over Boolean variables x1 . . . xn, with an arbitrary cost function cost: Bn → R, and the aim is ...
Javier Larrosa, Robert Nieuwenhuis, Albert Olivera...
Scheduling meetings among agents can be represented as a game - the Meetings Scheduling Game (MSG). In its simplest form, the two-person MSG is shown to have a price of anarchy (Po...
Abstract. In this paper we consider the dictionary problem in the scalable distributed data structure paradigm introduced by Litwin, Neimat and Schneider and analyze costs for inse...
Crash recovery in database systems aims to provide an acceptable level of protection from failure at a given engineering cost. A large number of recovery mechanisms are known, and...
S. Scheuerl, Richard C. H. Connor, Ronald Morrison...