IDA Seminar: Christos Pelekis

Accept our invitation to the seminar organized by the IDA research group with the support of the RCI project. Postdoctoral researcher Christos Pelekis from the NTU Athens will visit our department on September 1, 2022 to give a lecture titled A note on the network coloring game: A randomized distributed (Δ+1)-coloring algorithm. Meet us in the seminar room (KN:E-205) at 14:00 sharp.

Lecturer

Christos Pelekis is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTU Athens and a part-time instructor at the American College of Greece. Prior to his current positions, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Insitute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Computer Science of KU Leuven. He obtained my PhD from the Department of Applied Mathematics of TU Delft. His research interests include game theory, combinatorics, discrete probability, measure theory, and the space between.

Abstract

A note on the network coloring game: A randomized distributed (Δ+1)-coloring algorithm

The network coloring game has been proposed in the literature of social sciences as a model for conflict-resolution circumstances. The players of the game are the vertices of a graph with n vertices and maximum degree Δ. The game is played over rounds, and in each round all players simultaneously choose a color from a set of available colors. Players have local information of the graph: they only observe the colors chosen by their neighbors and do not communicate or cooperate with one another. A player is happy when she has chosen a color that is different from the colors chosen by her neighbors, otherwise she is unhappy, and a configuration of colors for which all players are happy is a proper coloring of the graph. It has been shown in the literature that, when the players adopt a particular greedy randomized strategy, the game reaches a proper coloring of the graph within O(log(n)) rounds, with high probability, provided the number of colors available to each player is at least Δ+2. In this talk I will show that a modification of the aforementioned greedy strategy yields likewise a proper coloring of the graph, provided the number of colors available to each player is at least Δ+1.