Fair Cost Sharing Network Creation Game

Fair Cost Sharing Network Creation Game
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 Given:
 G = (V, E),
 costs ce for all e є E,
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 Each player is a source-
sink pair.
 Each player wants to
build links to connect its
source to its sink.
 But players that use an
edge must pay for it!
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Fair Cost Sharing Network Creation Game
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 The cost of an edge is
shared evenly among
players using that edge.
 Each player’s goal is to
connect its vertex-pair as
cheaply as possible.
 Global objective:
minimize total cost of
edges needed to connect
all pairs.
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