Routing Games
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چکیده
This chapter studies the inefficiency of equilibria in noncooperative routing games, in which selfinterested players route traffic through a congested network. Our goals are threefold: to introduce the most important models and examples of routing games; to survey optimal bounds on the price of anarchy in these models; and to develop proof techniques that are useful for bounding the inefficiency of equilibria in a range of applications.
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