A logarithmic approximation for polymatroid congestion games

作者:Harks Tobias; Oosterwijk Tim*; Vredeveld Tjark
来源:Operations Research Letters, 2016, 44(6): 712-717.
DOI:10.1016/j.orl.2016.09.001

摘要

We study the problem of computing a social optimum in polymatroid congestion games, where the strategy space of every player consists of a player-specific integral polymatroid base polyhedron on a set of resources. For non-decreasing cost functions we devise an H-rho-approximation algorithm, where rho is the sum of the ranks of the polymatroids and H-rho denotes the rho-th harmonic number. The approximation guarantee is best possible up to a constant factor and solves an open problem of Ackermann et al. (2008).

  • 出版日期2016-11