@inbook{056d05a26f34459c9877904621680883,
title = "Tradeoffs in Worst-Case Equilibria",
abstract = "We investigate the problem of routing traffic through a congested network in an environment of non-cooperative users. We use the worst-case coordination ratio suggested by Koutsoupias and Papadimitriou to measure the performance degradation due to the lack of a centralized traffic regulating authority. We provide a full characterization of the worst-case coordination ratio in the restricted assignment and unrelated parallel links models. In particular, we quantify the tradeoff between the {"}negligibility{"} of the traffic controlled by each user and the coordination ratio. We analyze both pure and mixed strategies systems and identify the range where their performance is similar.",
author = "Baruch Awerbuch and Yossi Azar and Yossi Richter and Dekel Tsur",
note = "Funding Information: ∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +972 4 8281145. E-mail addresses:
[email protected] (B. Awerbuch),
[email protected] (Y. Azar),
[email protected] (Y. Richter),
[email protected] (D. Tsur). 1Research supported in part by the Israeli Ministry of industry and trade and by the Israel Science Foundation. 2Research supported in part by the Israeli Ministry of industry and trade.",
year = "2004",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-24592-6_4",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "41--52",
editor = "Klaus Jansen and Roberto Solis-Oba",
booktitle = "International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms",
address = "Germany",
}