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A proof of the Nisan-Ronen conjecture

Computer Science and Game Theory 2023-01-30 v1

Abstract

Noam Nisan and Amir Ronen conjectured that the best approximation ratio of deterministic truthful mechanisms for makespan-minimization for nn unrelated machines is nn. This work validates the conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2301.11905,
  title  = {A proof of the Nisan-Ronen conjecture},
  author = {George Christodoulou and Elias Koutsoupias and Annamaria Kovacs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.11905},
  year   = {2023}
}