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Edge Pricing of Multicommodity Networks for Selfish Users with Elastic Demands

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We examine how to induce selfish heterogeneous users in a multicommodity network to reach an equilibrium that minimizes the social cost. In the absence of centralized coordination, we use the classical method of imposing appropriate taxes (tolls) on the edges of the network. We significantly generalize previous work [20,13,9] by allowing user demands to be elastic. In this setting the demand of a user is not fixed a priori but it is a function of the routing cost experienced, a most natural assumption in traffic and data networks.

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  1. Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University,  

    George Karakostas

  2. Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens,  

    Stavros G. Kolliopoulos

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, Notre Dame, USA

    Danny Z. Chen

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    D. T. Lee

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Karakostas, G., Kolliopoulos, S.G. (2006). Edge Pricing of Multicommodity Networks for Selfish Users with Elastic Demands. In: Chen, D.Z., Lee, D.T. (eds) Computing and Combinatorics. COCOON 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11809678_5

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