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We investigate a discrete search game called the Multiple Caching Game where the searcher's aim is to find all of a set of $d$ treasures hidden in $n$ locations. Allowed queries are sets of locations of size $k$, and the searcher wins if in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Áron Jánosik , Csenge Miklós , Dániel G. Simon , Kristóf Zólomy

The move-minimizing puzzles presented here are certain types of one-player combinatorial games that are shown to have explicit solutions whenever they can be encoded in a certain way as diamond-colored modular or distributive lattices. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Robert G. Donnelly , Elizabeth A. Donovan , Molly W. Dunkum , Timothy A. Schroeder

A mediator is a mechanism that can only suggest actions to players, as a function of all agents' reported types, in a given game of incomplete information. We study what is achievable by two kinds of mediators, "strong" and "weak." Players…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Michael Kearns , Mallesh M. Pai , Ryan Rogers , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman

We study combinatorial games under mis\`ere convention. Several sets of games have been considered earlier to better understand the behaviour of mis\`ere games. We here connect several of these sets. In particular, we prove that comparison…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-14 Gabriel Renault

We study games with finitely many participants, each having finitely many choices. We consider the following categories of participants: (I) populations: sets of nonatomic agents, (II) atomic splittable players, (III) atomic non splittable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Sylvain Sorin , Cheng Wan

We construct algorithms for computation of prices and superhedging strategies for game options in general discrete markets both from the seller and the buyer points of view.

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2012-06-21 Yuri Kifer

We present an algebraic framework for the analysis of combinatorial games. This framework embraces the classical theory of partizan games as well as a number of misere games, comply-constrain games, and card games that have been studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-03 Johan Wästlund

Combinatorial Scoring games, with the property `extra pass moves for a player does no harm', are characterized. The characterization involves an order embedding of Conway's Normal-play games. Also, we give a theorem for comparing games with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Urban Larsson , Richard J. Nowakowski , Carlos P. Santos

We relate the property of discrete selectivity and its corresponding game, both recently introduced by V.V. Tkachuck, to a variety of selection principles and point picking games. In particular we show that player II can win the discrete…

General Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Steven Clontz , Jared Holshouser

Game theory is the standard tool used to model strategic interactions in evolutionary biology and social science. Traditional game theory studies the equilibria of simple games. But is traditional game theory applicable if the game is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-22 Tobias Galla , J. Doyne Farmer

Repeated games have a long tradition in the behavioral sciences and evolutionary biology. Recently, strategies were discovered that permit an unprecedented level of control over repeated interactions by enabling a player to unilaterally…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-25 Alex McAvoy , Christoph Hauert

In this paper, we perform a minimalistic quantization of the classical game of tic-tac-toe, by allowing superpositions of classical moves. In order for the quantum game to reduce properly to the classical game, we require legal quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. N. Leaw , S. A. Cheong

We present a Spades bidding algorithm that is superior to recreational human players and to publicly available bots. Like in Bridge, the game of Spades is composed of two independent phases, \textit{bidding} and \textit{playing}. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Gal Cohensius , Reshef Meir , Nadav Oved , Roni Stern

We introduce a topological combinatorial game called the Link Smoothing Game. The game is played on the shadow of a link diagram and legal moves consist of smoothing precrossings. One player's goal is to keep the diagram connected while the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-15 Allison Henrich , Inga Johnson

We consider discrete time partially observable zero-sum stochastic game with average payoff criterion. We study the game using an equivalent completely observable game. We show that the game has a value and also we come up with a pair of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Subhamay Saha

We study hedonic games with dichotomous preferences. Hedonic games are cooperative games in which players desire to form coalitions, but only care about the makeup of the coalitions of which they are members; they are indifferent about the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Haris Aziz , Paul Harrenstein , Jérôme Lang , Michael Wooldridge

Skat is a fascinating combinatorial card game, show-casing many of the intrinsic challenges for modern AI systems such as cooperative and adversarial behaviors (among the players), randomness (in the deal), and partial knowledge (due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Stefan Edelkamp

In 2017, Tkachuk isolated the closed discrete selection property while working on problems related to function spaces [15]. In this paper we will study the closed discrete selection property and the related games and strategies on $C_k(X)$.…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Christopher Caruvana , Jared Holshouser

The game of bridge consists of two stages: bidding and playing. While playing is proved to be relatively easy for computer programs, bidding is very challenging. During the bidding stage, each player knowing only his/her own cards needs to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Jiang Rong , Tao Qin , Bo An

A positional game is a game where two players sequentially label vertices of a hypergraph, consisting of a board and a collection of winning sets, with colors assigned to each player until all vertices of the board are claimed. The first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Pranav Avadhanam , Siddhartha G. Jena