On the Price of Anarchy of Restricted Job Scheduling Games

The Price of Anarchy [Koutspoupias and Papadimitriou, 1999] is the, by now celebrated, ratio used to measure how system performance is affected by the selfish behaviour of agents using it. In this work we show bounds on the Price of Anarchy for problems of restricted scheduling of selfish jobs on related and unrelated machines.

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