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Stability vs. optimality in selfish ring routing [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the asymmetric atomic selfish routing in ring networks, which has diverse practical applications in network design and analysis. We are concerned with minimizing the maximum latency of source-destination node-pairs over links with linear ...
Hu, Xiaodong   +3 more
core  

Design of price mechanisms for network resource allocation via price of anarchy

open access: yes, 2012
We study the design of price mechanisms for communication network problems in which a user's utility depends on the amount of flow she sends through the network, and the congestion on each link depends on the total traffic flows over it.
Zhang, Jiawei, Chen, Ying Ju
core   +1 more source

The price of anarchy in series-parallel graphs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Congestion games model self-interested agents competing for resources in communication networks. The price of anarchy quantifies the deterioration in performance in such games compared to the optimal solution.
Pieter Senster   +2 more
core  

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

Social Distancing Network Creation. [PDF]

open access: yesAlgorithmica, 2023
Friedrich T   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
wiley   +1 more source

Price of Anarchy with Heterogeneous Latency Functions

open access: yesCoRR, 2014
totally 25 ...
Sanjiv Kapoor, Junghwan Shin
openaire   +2 more sources

A drag on the ticket? Estimating top‐of‐the‐ticket effects on down‐ballot races

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Campaign staff, journalists, and political scientists commonly attribute the poor performances of a party's down‐ballot candidates to low‐quality or extreme top‐of‐the‐ticket candidates, but empirical evidence on this conventional wisdom is scant. We estimate the effect of candidate quality and ideology in gubernatorial and U.S.
Kevin DeLuca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Pure Price of Anarchy of Pool Block Withholding Attacks in Bitcoin Mining

open access: yesAAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019
Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency built on the blockchain data structure, has generated significant academic and commercial interest. Contrary to prior expectations, recent research has shown that participants of the protocol (the so-called “miners”) are not ...
Colleen Alkalay-Houlihan, Nisarg Shah
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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