2006 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Selfish Service Installation in Networks
(Extended Abstract)
verfasst von : Jean Cardinal, Martin Hoefer
Erschienen in: Internet and Network Economics
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We consider a scenario of distributed service installation in privately owned networks. Our model is a non-cooperative
vertex cover game
for
k
players. Each player owns a set of edges in a graph
G
and strives to cover each edge by an incident vertex. Vertices have costs and must be purchased to be available for the cover. Vertex costs can be shared arbitrarily by players. Once a vertex is bought, it can be used by any player to fulfill the covering requirement of her incident edges. Despite its simplicity, the model exhibits a surprisingly rich set of properties. We present a cumulative set of results including tight characterizations for prices of anarchy and stability, NP-hardness of equilibrium existence, and polynomial time solvability for important subclasses of the game. In addition, we consider the task of finding approximate Nash equilibria purchasing an approximation to the optimum social cost, in which each player can improve her contribution by selfish defection only by at most a certain factor. A variation of the primal-dual algorithm for minimum weighted vertex cover yields a guarantee of 2, which is shown to be tight.