Price of anarchy for graph coloring games with concave payoff

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January 2017, 4(1): 41-58. doi: 10.3934/jdg.2017003

Price of anarchy for graph coloring games with concave payoff

Lasse Kliemann ^, , Elmira Shirazi Sheykhdarabadi and Anand Srivastav

Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4,24118 Kiel, Germany

* Corresponding author: Lasse Kliemann lki@informatik.uni-kiel.de

Received February 2016 Revised November 2016 Published December 2016

Fund Project: L. Kliemann is supported by DFG grants KL 2087/1-1 and SR 7/15-1. E. Shirazi Sheykhdarabadi is supported by a Federal State Scholarship at Kiel University

We study the price of anarchy in graph coloring games (a subclass of polymatrix common-payoff games). Players are vertices of an undirected graph, and the strategies for each player are the colors $\left\{ {1, \ldots ,k} \right\}$. A tight bound of $\frac{k}{k-1}$ is known (Hoefer 2007, Kun et al. 2013), if each player's payoff is the number of neighbors with different color than herself.

In our generalization, payoff is computed by determining the distance of the player's color to the color of each neighbor, applying a concave function $f$ to each distance, and then summing up the resulting values. This is motivated, e. g., by spectrum sharing, and includes the payoff functions suggested by Kun et al. (2013) for future work as special cases.

Denote $f^*$ the maximum value that $f$ attains on $\left\{ {0, \ldots ,k - 1} \right\}$. We prove an upper bound of $2$ on the price of anarchy if $f$ is non-decreasing or assumes $f^*$ somewhere in $\left\{ {0, \ldots ,{\frac{k}{2}}} \right\}$. Matching lower bounds are given for the monotone case and if $f^*$ is assumed in $\frac{k}{2}$ for even $k$. For general concave $f$, we prove an upper bound of $3$. We use a new technique that works by an appropriate splitting $\lambda = \lambda_1 + \ldots + \lambda_k$ of the bound $\lambda$ we are proving.

Keywords: Graph coloring, strategic game, price of anarchy, concave function, spectrum sharing.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 91A43, 91A06; Secondary: 05C15.

Citation: Lasse Kliemann, Elmira Shirazi Sheykhdarabadi, Anand Srivastav. Price of anarchy for graph coloring games with concave payoff. Journal of Dynamics & Games, 2017, 4 (1) : 41-58. doi: 10.3934/jdg.2017003

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[5]	S. Bosio, A. Eisenblätter, H. -F. Geerdes, I. Siomina and D. Yuan, Mathematical optimization models for WLAN planning, Graphs and Algorithms in Communication Networks (Arie M. C. A. Koster and Xavier Muñoz, eds. ), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010,283-309. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02250-0_11. Google Scholar
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[10]	K. Chaudhuri1, F. Chung Graham and M. S. Jamall, A network coloring game, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, Shanghai, China, December 2008 (WINE 2008), 5385 (2008), 522-530. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-92185-1_58. Google Scholar
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[12]	B. Escoffier and J. Monnot and L. Gourvès, Strategic coloring of a graph, Algorithms and complexity, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci., Springer, Berlin, 6078 (2010), 155-166. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-13073-1_15. Google Scholar
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[17]	M. M. Halldórsson, J. Y. Halpern, L. E. Li and V. S. Mirrokni, On spectrum sharing games, Distributed Computing, 22 (2010), 235-248, Conference version at PODC 2004. doi: 10.1007/s00446-010-0098-0. Google Scholar
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[20]	J. C. M. Janssen, Channel Assignment and Graph Labeling Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA, 2002. doi: 10.1002/0471224561.ch5. Google Scholar
[21]	D. R. Karger, R. Motwani and M. Sudan, Approximate graph coloring by semidefinite programming, Journal of the ACM, 45 (1998), 246-265, Conference version at FOCS 1994. doi: 10.1145/274787.274791. Google Scholar
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[35]	J. van den Heuvel, R. A. Leese and M. A. Shepherd, Graph labeling and radio channel assignment, Journal of Graph Theory, 29 (1998), 263-283. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0118(199812)29:4<263::AID-JGT5>3.0.CO;2-V. Google Scholar
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[37]	R. K. Yeh, A survey on labeling graphs with a condition at distance two, Discrete Mathematics, 306 (2006), 1217-1231. doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2005.11.029. Google Scholar

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