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ESA
2010
Springer
178views Algorithms» more  ESA 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Weighted Congestion Games: Price of Anarchy, Universal Worst-Case Examples, and Tightness
We characterize the price of anarchy in weighted congestion games, as a function of the allowable resource cost functions. Our results provide as thorough an understanding of this ...
Kshipra Bhawalkar, Martin Gairing, Tim Roughgarden
CORR
2011
Springer
153views Education» more  CORR 2011»
12 years 8 months ago
On the Windfall and Price of Friendship: Inoculation Strategies on Social Networks
This article investigates selfish behavior in games where players are embedded in a social context. A framework is presented which allows us to measure the Windfall of Friendship...
Dominic Meier, Yvonne Anne Pignolet, Stefan Schmid...
SAGT
2010
Springer
160views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
How Do You Like Your Equilibrium Selection Problems? Hard, or Very Hard?
The PPAD-completeness of Nash equilibrium computation is taken as evidence that the problem is computationally hard in the worst case. This evidence is necessarily rather weak, in ...
Paul W. Goldberg
AMC
2007
102views more  AMC 2007»
13 years 4 months ago
Existence and computation of short-run equilibria in economic geography
The new economic geography literature provides a general equilibrium framework that explains the emergence of economic agglomerations as a trade-off between increasing returns at...
Nicos G. Pavlidis, Michael N. Vrahatis, P. Mossay
CORR
2010
Springer
164views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Approximate Nash Equilibria under Stability Conditions
Finding approximate Nash equilibria in n × n bimatrix games is currently one of the main open problems in algorithmic game theory. Motivated in part by the lack of progress on wo...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Mark Braverman