On the performances of Nash equilibria in isolation games

  • Authors:
  • Vittorio Bilò;Michele Flammini;Gianpiero Monaco;Luca Moscardelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica "Ennio De Giorgi", Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy 73100;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di L'Aquila, Coppito, L'Aquila, Italy 67100;Mascotte joint project, INRIA/CNRS/UNSA, Sophia Antipolis, France;Dipartimento di Scienze, Università di Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy 65127

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2011
  • Mobile network creation games

    SIROCCO'12 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Structural Information and Communication Complexity

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Abstract

We study the performances of Nash equilibria in isolation games, a class of competitive location games recently introduced in Zhao et al. (Proc. of the 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), pp. 148---159, 2008). For all the cases in which the existence of Nash equilibria has been shown, we give tight or asymptotically tight bounds on the prices of anarchy and stability under the two classical social functions mostly investigated in the scientific literature, namely, the minimum utility per player and the sum of the players' utilities. Moreover, we prove that the convergence to Nash equilibria is not guaranteed in some of the not yet analyzed cases.