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Erschienen in: Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 4/2018

20.10.2017

Congestion games with mixed objectives

verfasst von: Matthias Feldotto, Lennart Leder, Alexander Skopalik

Erschienen in: Journal of Combinatorial Optimization | Ausgabe 4/2018

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Abstract

We study a new class of games which generalizes congestion games and its bottleneck variant. We introduce congestion games with mixed objectives to model network scenarios in which players seek to optimize for latency and bandwidths alike. We characterize the (non-)existence of pure Nash equilibria (PNE), the convergence of improvement dynamics, the quality of equilibria and show the complexity of the decision problem. For games that do not possess PNE we give bounds on the approximation ratio of approximate pure Nash equilibria.

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Metadaten
Titel
Congestion games with mixed objectives
verfasst von
Matthias Feldotto
Lennart Leder
Alexander Skopalik
Publikationsdatum
20.10.2017
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization / Ausgabe 4/2018
Print ISSN: 1382-6905
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2886
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-017-0189-y

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