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An outline of equilibrium thermodynamics for network games

Wojciech Wislicki 

Warsaw University, Interdisciplinary Centre for Matematical and Computational Modeling (ICM UW), Pawinskiego 5,building D,floor 5, Warszawa 02-106, Poland

Abstract

A number of agents asking for resources distributed over networks can be modelled as a n-party game. A resource broker defines the game payoff matrix. Linearly transformed agents' payoffs define their utilities. Taking statistical ensemble of such systems, with agents playing the role of subsystems, one can treat it in the framework of statistical thermodynamics, where an overall system's utility is an analog of the energy function. However, for games with no predefined agent resources, the systems are correlated, the probability measure is not Boltzmann-like, and the generalized, nonextensive thermodynamics has to be incorporated. Among many fields of application of this scheme, job scheduling on a computing Grid with distributed resources is found particularly interesting.

 

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Presentation: oral at Symposium on Econo- and Sociophysics 2004, by Wojciech Wislicki
See On-line Journal of Symposium on Econo- and Sociophysics 2004

Submitted: 2004-10-31 12:44
Revised:   2009-06-08 12:55