Selfish Bin Coloring
- We introduce a new game, the so-called bin coloring game, in which selfish players control colored items and each player aims at packing its item into a bin with as few different colors as possible. We establish the existence of Nash and strong as well as weakly and strictly Pareto optimal equilibria in these games in the cases of capacitated and uncapacitated bins. For both kinds of games we determine the prices of anarchy and stability concerning those four equilibrium concepts. Furthermore, we show that extreme Nash equilibria, those with minimal or maximal number of colors in a bin, can be found in time polynomial in the number of items for the uncapcitated case.
Author: | Leah Epstein, Sven O. Krumke, Asaf Levin, Heike Sperber |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-16242 |
Series (Serial Number): | Report in Wirtschaftsmathematik (WIMA Report) (123) |
Document Type: | Report |
Language of publication: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2009 |
Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
Publishing Institution: | Technische Universität Kaiserslautern |
Date of the Publication (Server): | 2009/10/16 |
Tag: | Nash equilibria; algorithmic game theory; bin coloring; price of anarchy; price of stability; strong equilibria; weakly/ strictly pareto optima |
Faculties / Organisational entities: | Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Mathematik |
DDC-Cassification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 510 Mathematik |
Licence (German): | Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011 |