Cost sharing mechanisms for scheduling problems under general demand settings

Rama Sri Sindhura Balireddi, Purdue University

Abstract

In this work, we develop a framework for cost sharing situations under general demand settings and show its applicability to various scheduling problems. In particular, we focus on game-theoretic versions of various scheduling problems with completion time objectives. We apply our framework to obtain truthful cost sharing mechanisms with budget balance and efficiency guarantees for these problems. We also give a scheduling problem to which our framework does not apply. This work is a natural extension of work by Mehta et al. (2007) and Brenner and Schäfer (2008).

Degree

M.S.

Advisors

Uhan, Purdue University.

Subject Area

Computer science

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