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A Truthful Constant Approximation for Maximizing the Minimum Load on Related Machines

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Christodoulou,  George
Algorithms and Complexity, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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Kovacs,  Annamaria
Algorithms and Complexity, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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van Stee,  Rob
Algorithms and Complexity, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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Christodoulou, G., Kovacs, A., & van Stee, R. (2010). A Truthful Constant Approximation for Maximizing the Minimum Load on Related Machines. In A. Saberi (Ed.), Internet and Network Economics (pp. 182-193). Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-17572-5_15.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-1613-F
Abstract
Designing truthful mechanisms for scheduling on related machines is a very important problem in single-parameter mechanism design. We consider the covering objective, that is we are interested in maximizing the minimum completion time of a machine. This problem falls into the class of problems where the optimal allocation can be truthfully implemented. A major open issue for this class is whether truthfulness affects the polynomial-time implementation. We provide the first constant factor approxi\-mation for deterministic truthful mechanisms. In particular we come up with a $2+\eps$ approximation guarantee, significantly improving on the previous upper bound of $\min(m,(2+\eps)s_m/s_1)$.