We consider the following machine scheduling game. Jobs, controlled by selfish players, are to be assigned to unrelated machines. A player cares only about the finishing time of his job(s), while disregarding the welfare of other players. The outcome of such games is measured by the makespan. Our goal is to design coordination mechanisms to schedule the jobs so as to minimize the price of anarc...

This work deals with the problem of scheduling n independent jobs on m unrelated parallel machines with the objective of minimizing the makespan (the total elapsed time from the start of execution until all jobs have been completed). Preemption is not allowed. This way a job, once assigned to a particular machine, may not be removed until it has finished its execution. All the machines start wo...