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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...
JSAC
2008
121views more  JSAC 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Network Coding Games with Unicast Flows
Abstract--To implement network coding, users need to coordinate and cooperate with respect to their strategies in terms of duplicating and transmitting side information across spec...
Jennifer Price, Tara Javidi
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
166views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
13 years 12 months ago
A price-anticipating resource allocation mechanism for distributed shared clusters
In this paper we formulate the fixed budget resource allocation game to understand the performance of a distributed marketbased resource allocation system. Multiple users decide ...
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Li Zhang
ICC
2009
IEEE
148views Communications» more  ICC 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Inter-Session Network Coding
Abstract— A common assumption in the network coding literature is that the users are cooperative and will not pursue their own interests. However, this assumption can be violated...
Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, Jianwei Huang, Vincent W...
SAGA
2007
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
Probabilistic Techniques in Algorithmic Game Theory
We consider applications of probabilistic techniques in the framework of algorithmic game theory. We focus on three distinct case studies: (i) The exploitation of the probabilistic...
Spyros C. Kontogiannis, Paul G. Spirakis