Serving by local consensus in the public service location game

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep32502

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	Serving by local consensus in the public service location game
	Sun, YF ; Zhou, HJ
刊名	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
	2016
卷号	6 页码:32502
关键词	NETWORKS GRAPHS
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep32502
英文摘要	We discuss the issue of distributed and cooperative decision-making in a network game of public service location. Each node of the network can decide to host a certain public service incurring in a construction cost and serving all the neighboring nodes and itself. A pure consumer node has to pay a tax, and the collected tax is evenly distributed to all the hosting nodes to remedy their construction costs. If all nodes make individual best-response decisions, the system gets trapped in an inefficient situation of high tax level. Here we introduce a decentralized local-consensus selection mechanism which requires nodes to recommend their neighbors of highest local impact as candidate servers, and a node may become a server only if all its non-server neighbors give their assent. We demonstrate that although this mechanism involves only information exchange among neighboring nodes, it leads to socially efficient solutions with tax level approaching the lowest possible value. Our results may help in understanding and improving collective problem-solving in various networked social and robotic systems.
学科主题	Science & Technology - Other Topics
语种	英语
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China [11121403, 11225526] ; State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics [Y5KF201CJ1] ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities ; Research Funds of Renmin University of China [14XNLF13]
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.itp.ac.cn/handle/311006/23317]
专题	理论物理研究所_理论物理所1978-2010年知识产出
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Theoret Phys, Key Lab Theoret Phys, Zhong Guan Cun East Rd 55, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Renmin Univ China, Sch Stat, Ctr Appl Stat, Zhong Guan Cun St 59, Beijing 100872, Peoples R China 3.[Sun, Yi-Fan 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Phys Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sun, YF,Zhou, HJ. Serving by local consensus in the public service location game[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2016,6:32502.
APA	Sun, YF,&Zhou, HJ.(2016).Serving by local consensus in the public service location game.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,6,32502.
MLA	Sun, YF,et al."Serving by local consensus in the public service location game".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 6(2016):32502.