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CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Equilibria and Efficiency Loss in Games on Networks
Social networks are the substrate upon which we make and evaluate many of our daily decisions: our costs and benefits depend on whether--or how many of, or which of--our friends ar...
Joshua R. Davis, Zachary Goldman, Jacob Hilty, Eli...
WINE
2010
Springer
251views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
The Complexity of Equilibria in Cost Sharing Games
We study Congestion Games with non-increasing cost functions (Cost Sharing Games) from a complexity perspective and resolve their computational hardness, which has been an open que...
Vasilis Syrgkanis
SAGT
2010
Springer
186views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
On the Efficiency of Markets with Two-Sided Proportional Allocation Mechanisms
We analyze the performance of single-parameter mechanisms for markets in which there is competition amongst both consumers and suppliers (namely, two-sided markets). Specifically, ...
Volodymyr Kuleshov, Adrian Vetta
CORR
2008
Springer
174views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Bounded Budget Connection (BBC) Games or How to make friends and influence people, on a budget
Motivated by applications in social networks, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, we define and study the Bounded Budget Connection (BBC) game - we have a collection of n players o...
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Laura J. Poplawski, Rajmohan R...
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Existence Theorems and Approximation Algorithms for Generalized Network Security Games
—Aspnes et al [2] introduced an innovative game for modeling the containment of the spread of viruses and worms (security breaches) in a network. In this model, nodes choose to i...
V. S. Anil Kumar, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Zhifeng Sun,...