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This paper studies a stochastic dynamic game between two competing teams, each consisting of a network of collaborating agents. Unlike fully cooperative settings, where all agents share a common objective, each team in this game aims to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yike Zhao , Haoyuan Cai , Ali H. Sayed

We study a two-player zero-sum game in continuous time, where the payoff-a running cost-depends on a Brownian motion. This Brownian motion is observed in real time by one of the players. The other one observes only the actions of his…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Fabien Gensbittel , Catherine Rainer

We consider two-player combinatorial games in which the graph of positions is random and perhaps infinite, focusing on directed Galton-Watson trees. As the offspring distribution is varied, a game can undergo a phase transition, in which…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Alexander E. Holroyd , James B. Martin

We study the structural complexity of bimatrix games, formalized via rank, from an empirical perspective. We consider a setting where we have data on player behavior in diverse strategic situations, but where we do not observe the relevant…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Siddharth Barman , Umang Bhaskar , Federico Echenique , Adam Wierman

Self-serving, rational agents sometimes cooperate to their mutual benefit. The two-player iterated prisoner's dilemma game is a model for including the emergence of cooperation. It is generally believed that there is no simple ultimatum…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jin-Li Guo

In this work, we proposed a new $N$-person game in which the players can bet on two options, for example represented by two boxers. Some of the players have privileged information about the boxers and part of them can provide this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-04 Roberto da Silva , Henrique A. Fernandes

This work lies in the fusion of experimental economics and data mining. It continues author's previous work on mining behaviour rules of human subjects from experimental data, where game-theoretic predictions partially fail to work.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Rustam Tagiew

This paper presents a learning dynamic with almost sure convergence guarantee for any stochastic game with turn-based controllers (on state transitions) as long as stage-payoffs induce a zero-sum or identical-interest game. Stage-payoffs…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Muhammed O. Sayin

We prove that zero-sum Dynkin games in continuous time with partial and asymmetric information admit a value in randomised stopping times when the stopping payoffs of the players are general \cadlag measurable processes. As a by-product of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Tiziano De Angelis , Nikita Merkulov , Jan Palczewski

For zero-sum two-player continuous-time games with integral payoff and incomplete information on one side, one shows that the optimal strategy of the informed player can be computed through an auxiliary optimization problem over some…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-02 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Catherine Rainer

We study an independent best-response dynamics on network games in which the nodes (players) decide to revise their strategies independently with some probability. We provide several bounds on the convergence time to an equilibrium as a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Paolo Penna , Laurent Viennot

Stochastic games are a natural model for the synthesis of controllers confronted to adversarial and/or random actions. In particular, $\omega$-regular games of infinite length can represent reactive systems which are not expected to reach a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Florian Horn

We study a model of two-player, zero-sum, stopping games with asymmetric information. We assume that the payoff depends on two continuous-time Markov chains (X, Y), where X is only observed by player 1 and Y only by player 2, implying that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Fabien Gensbittel , Christine Grün

Human behavioural patterns exhibit selfish or competitive, as well as selfless or altruistic tendencies, both of which have demonstrable effects on human social and economic activity. In behavioural economics, such effects have…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Jan E. Snellman , Gerardo Iñiguez , János Kertész , R. A. Barrio , Kimmo K. Kaski

This paper studies a large class of two-player perfect-information turn-based parity games on infinite graphs, namely those generated by collapsible pushdown automata. The main motivation for studying these games comes from the connections…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Christopher H. Broadbent , Arnaud Carayol , Matthew Hague , Andrzej S. Murawski , C. -H. Luke Ong , Olivier Serre

We study the mathematical properties of probabilistic processes in which the independent actions of $n$ players (`causes') can influence the outcome of each player (`effects'). In such a setting, each pair of outcomes will generally be…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Mike Steel , Amelia Taylor

In this paper we introduce a new two-player zero-sum game whose value function approximates the level set formulation for the geometric evolution by mean curvature of a hypersurface. In our approach the game is played with symmetric rules…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Irene Gonzalvez , Alfredo Miranda , Julio D. Rossi , Jorge Ruiz-Cases

Simple stochastic games are two-player zero-sum stochastic games with turn-based moves, perfect information, and reachability winning conditions. We present two new algorithms computing the values of simple stochastic games. Both of them…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Hugo Gimbert , Florian Horn

Generating payoff matrices of normal-form games at random, we calculate the frequency of games with a unique pure strategy Nash equilibrium in the ensemble of $n$-player, $m$-strategy games. These are perfectly predictable as they must…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-03 Samuel C. Wiese , Torsten Heinrich

Motivated by the controller placement problems in software-defined networks and the fair division principles of classical "cake cutting", we investigate the following two-player zero-sum game. In our model, a defender places a limited…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Grzegorz Gutowski , Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Antonio Lauerbach , Alexander Wolff