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The Quality of Equilibria for Set Packing Games

Computer Science and Game Theory 2023-03-06 v1

Abstract

We introduce set packing games as an abstraction of situations in which nn selfish players select subsets of a finite set of indivisible items, and analyze the quality of several equilibria for this class of games. Assuming that players are able to approximately play equilibrium strategies, we show that the total quality of the resulting equilibrium solutions is only moderately suboptimal. Our results are tight bounds on the price of anarchy for three equilibrium concepts, namely Nash equilibria, subgame perfect equilibria, and an equilibrium concept that we refer to as kk-collusion Nash equilibrium.

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@article{arxiv.1709.10289,
  title  = {The Quality of Equilibria for Set Packing Games},
  author = {Jasper de Jong and Marc Uetz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.10289},
  year   = {2023}
}