We consider the problem of maximizing the minimum load for machines that are controlled by selfish agents, who are only interested in maximizing their own profit. Unlike the classical load balancing problem, this problem has not been considered for selfish agents until now. For a constant number of machines, m, we show a monotone polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) with running time that is linear in the number of jobs. It uses a new technique for reducing the number of jobs while remaining close to the optimal solution. We also present an FPTAS for the classical problem, i.e., where no selfish agents are involved (the previous best result for this case was a PTAS) and use this to give a monotone FPTAS. Additionally, we give a monotone approximation algorithm with approximation ratio where can be chosen arbitrarily small and s i is the (real) speed of machine i. Finally we give improved results for two machines. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Epstein, L., & Van Stee, R. (2008). Maximizing the minimum load for selfish agents. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4957 LNCS, pp. 264–275). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78773-0_23
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