Should I quit using my resource? Modeling Resource Usage through Game Theory

TL;DR

This paper models resource usage in web infrastructures as a cooperative game to determine optimal stopping points for users and providers, providing insights into resource switching decisions.

Contribution

It introduces a game-theoretic model of resource usage, offering a novel quantitative framework for decision-making in resource management.

Findings

Provides criteria for users to decide when to stop using a resource.

Offers guidelines for resource providers on managing resource allocation.

Quantifies the benefits of switching resources in a web infrastructure context.

Abstract

Existing web infrastructures have supported the publication of a tremendous amount of resources, and over the past few years Data Resource Usage is an everyday task for millions of users all over the world. In this work we model Resource Usage as a Cooperative Cournot Game in which a resource user and the various resource services are engaged. We give quantified answers as to when it is of interest for the user to stop using part of a resource and to switch to a different one. Moreover, we do the same from the perspective of a resource's provider.