Price of Anarchy for Non-atomic Congestion Games with Stochastic Demands

نویسندگان

  • Chenlan Wang
  • Xuan Vinh Doan
  • Bo Chen
چکیده

We generalize the notions of user equilibrium and system optimum to nonatomic congestion games with stochastic demands. We establish upper bounds on the price of anarchy for three different settings of link cost functions and demand distributions, namely, (a) affine cost functions and general distributions, (b) polynomial cost functions and general positive-valued distributions, and (c) polynomial cost functions and the normal distributions. All the upper bounds are tight in some special cases, including the case of deterministic demands.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1310.4874  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013