A proof of the Nisan-Ronen conjecture --- an overview

This note presents an overview of our recent publication, which validates a conjecture proposed by Nisan and Ronen in their seminal paper [Nisan and Ronen 2001]. We show that the optimal approximation ratio for deterministic truthful mechanisms for makespan-minimization by a set of n unrelated machi...

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Main Authors: Christodoulou, G, Koutsoupias, E, Kovacs, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2024