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A convergence analysis of the price of anarchy in atomic congestion games

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  • Zijun Wu
  • Rolf H. Moehring
  • Chunying Ren
  • Dachuan Xu

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This paper provides a comprehensive convergence analysis of the PoA of both pure and mixed Nash equilibria in atomic congestion games with unsplittable demands.

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  • Zijun Wu & Rolf H. Moehring & Chunying Ren & Dachuan Xu, 2020. "A convergence analysis of the price of anarchy in atomic congestion games," Papers 2007.14769, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2021.
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