TY - JOUR
T1 - How egalitarian are Nash equilibria in network cost-sharing games?
AU - Chen, Po-An
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - We consider the egalitarian social cost, which is the maximum individual cost (instead of the sum), when analyzing Nash equilibria in fair network cost-sharing games. Intuitively, the egalitarian price of anarchy reflects how uneven cost is distributed among players at equilibrium. We first show a tight upper bound of k in general fair network cost-sharing games, where k is the total number of players. For fair network cost-sharing games with a single source-sink pair and a relaxed benchmark, we then show an upper bound of n-1 on the egalitarian price of anarchy defined using such benchmark, where n is the network size. This gives a possibly better bound that does not depend on the number of players nor the costs.
AB - We consider the egalitarian social cost, which is the maximum individual cost (instead of the sum), when analyzing Nash equilibria in fair network cost-sharing games. Intuitively, the egalitarian price of anarchy reflects how uneven cost is distributed among players at equilibrium. We first show a tight upper bound of k in general fair network cost-sharing games, where k is the total number of players. For fair network cost-sharing games with a single source-sink pair and a relaxed benchmark, we then show an upper bound of n-1 on the egalitarian price of anarchy defined using such benchmark, where n is the network size. This gives a possibly better bound that does not depend on the number of players nor the costs.
KW - Egalitarian
KW - Network cost-sharing game
KW - Network design game
KW - Network formation game
KW - Price of anarchy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.orl.2015.08.006
DO - 10.1016/j.orl.2015.08.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940988825
SN - 0167-6377
VL - 43
SP - 564
EP - 566
JO - Operations Research Letters
JF - Operations Research Letters
IS - 6
M1 - 5985
ER -