On the Nisan-Ronen conjecture

The Nisan-Ronen conjecture states that no truthful mechanism for makespan-minimization when allocating m tasks to n unrelated machines can have approximation ratio less than n. Over more than two decades since its formulation, little progress has been made in resolving it and the best known lower bo...

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Main Authors: Christodoulou, G, Koutsoupias, E, Kovacs, A
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery 2022