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<p>equilibrium, the PoS is equal to the PoA and it is 5 too.</p>

<p><big> Job scheduling </big></p>
<p>A more natural example is the one of <b>job scheduling</b>. There are  players and each of them has a job to run. They can choose one of  machines to run the job. The Price of Anarchy compares the situation where the selection of machines is guided/directed centrally to the situation where each player chooses the machine that will make its job run fastest.</p>

<p>Each machine has a speed   Each job has a weight  A player picks a machine to run his or</p><p>
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