STOC2023
A Proof of the Nisan-Ronen Conjecture
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Annamária Kovács
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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.