Congestion games with capacitated resources

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Gourvès;Jérôme Monnot;Stefano Moretti;Nguyen Kim Thang

  • Affiliations:
  • LAMSADE, CNRS UMR 7243, Université Paris Dauphine, France;LAMSADE, CNRS UMR 7243, Université Paris Dauphine, France;LAMSADE, CNRS UMR 7243, Université Paris Dauphine, France;IBISC, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne, France

  • Venue:
  • SAGT'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Algorithmic Game Theory
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We extend congestion games to the setting where every resource is endowed with a capacity which possibly limits its number of users. From the negative side, we show that a pure Nash equilibrium is not guaranteed to exist in any case and we prove that deciding whether a game possesses a pure Nash equilibrium is NP-complete. Our positive results state that congestion games with capacities are potential games in the well studied singleton case. Polynomial algorithms that compute these equilibria are also provided.