A proof of the Nisan-Ronen conjecture

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George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Annamária Kovács

Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 15 Jul 2024CoRR 2023EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: 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.