Algorithmic Game Theory and Transportation: A Survey
Nash equilibria and related game-theoretic concepts have lately received increasing attention from the algorithms community. The “price of anarchy” has emerged as the perhaps most prominent notion. It measures the loss of efficiency in a system that is left to independent, selfishly acting agents if compared to a globally optimal, centrally coordinated solution. While this view is now used in a variety of settings including location analysis, pricing, supply chain coordination, and system design, it was originally developed in the context of transportation networks. In this lecture, I will review results on the price of anarchy and closely related concepts that have since been established in a series of papers on selfish routing in multi-commodity flow networks.
Watch the video below of Andreas Schulz’s presentation.
