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Prog. Theor. Phys. Supplement No.157 (2005) pp. 308-311

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Statistical Mechanics of Resource Allocation

Andrea De Martino

INFM-SMC and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”,
p. le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy

Abstract:

We sketch the usefulness of spin-glass techniques for the analysis of the macroscopic properties of certain resource allocation problems, focusing in particular on a simple linear production model and on the competitive equilibrium model.


URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTPS/157/308/
DOI : 10.1143/PTPS.157.308

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