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In this paper, we introduce the selfish bin packing problem under a new version of cost sharing mechanism based on harmonic mean. The items (as agents) are selfish and intelligent to minimize the cost they have to pay, by selecting a proper bin to fit in. The tricky part is that the one with bigger size pays less and vice versa. We present the motivations and prove the existence of pure Nash Equilibrium under this new defined cost sharing mechanism. Then we study the Price of Anarchy, which is the ratio between the objective value of worst Nash Equilibrium and that of the optimum in the case with central decision maker. We prove the upper bound to be approximately 1.722 and show a 5/3 lower bound for this problem. We then include punishment into the model and prove that in this new model, the Price of Anarchy could be decreased to 3/2.
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