Cost-sharing mechanisms for scheduling under general demand settings
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Cost-sharing mechanisms for scheduling under general demand settings
We investigate cost-sharing mechanisms for scheduling cost-sharing games. We assume that the demand is general—that is, each player can be allocated one of several levels of service. We show how to design mechanisms for these games that are weakly group strategyproof, approximately budget-balanced, and approximately efficient, using approximation algorithms for the underlying scheduling problem...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Operational Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0377-2217
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.09.030