A proof of the Nisan-Ronen conjecture

01/27/2023
by   George Christodoulou, et al.
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Noam Nisan and Amir Ronen conjectured that the best approximation ratio of deterministic truthful mechanisms for makespan-minimization for n unrelated machines is n. This work validates the conjecture.

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