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PPL
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
The Price of Anarchy for Restricted Parallel Links
In the model of restricted parallel links, n users must be routed on m parallel links under the restriction that the link for each user be chosen from a certain set of allowed lin...
Martin Gairing, Thomas Lücking, Marios Mavron...
ESA
2007
Springer
97views Algorithms» more  ESA 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
To Fill or Not to Fill: The Gas Station Problem
In this paper we study several routing problems that generalize shortest paths and the Traveling Salesman Problem. We consider a more general model that incorporates the actual co...
Samir Khuller, Azarakhsh Malekian, Julián M...
WAOA
2004
Springer
91views Algorithms» more  WAOA 2004»
15 years 5 months ago
Pricing Network Edges to Cross a River
Abstract. We consider a Stackelberg pricing problem in directed networks. Tariffs have to be defined by an operator, the leader, for a subset of the arcs, the tariff arcs. Clien...
Alexander Grigoriev, Stan P. M. van Hoesel, Anton ...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
100views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
The price of uncertainty
We study the degree to which small fluctuations in costs in wellstudied potential games can impact the result of natural best-response and improved-response dynamics. We call thi...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Yishay Mansour
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ECAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
A Truthful Two-Stage Mechanism for Eliciting Probabilistic Estimates with Unknown Costs
This paper reports on the design of a novel two-stage mechanism, based on strictly proper scoring rules, that motivates selfish rational agents to make a costly probabilistic estim...
Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Alex Rogers, Enrico H...