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In this work we study the behavior of classical two-person, two-strategies evolutionary games on networks embedded in a Euclidean two-dimensional space with different kinds of degree distributions and topologies going from regular to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-03 Pierre Buesser , Marco Tomassini

Communities typically capture homophily as people of the same community share many common features. This paper is motivated by the problem of community detection in social networks, as it can help improve our understanding of the network…

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In optimizing the topology of wireless networks built of a dynamic set of spatially embedded agents, there are many trade-offs to be dealt with. The network should preferably be as small (in the sense that the average, or maximal,…

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With the advance of complex large-scale networks, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how selfish and spatially distributed individuals will share network resources without centralized coordinations. In this paper, we…

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In this letter, we investigate the problem of dynamic spectrum access for small cell networks, using a graphical game approach. Compared with existing studies, we take the features of different cell loads and local interference relationship…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yuhua Xu , Chenggui Wang , Junhong Chen , Jinlong Wang , Yitao Xu , Qihui Wu , Alagan Anpalagan

Wireless communication networks are becoming highly virtualized with two-layer hierarchies, in which controllers at the upper layer with tasks to achieve can ask a large number of agents at the lower layer to help realize computation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Zijie Zheng , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , Geoffrey Ye Li , H. Vincent Poor

We propose a dynamical process for network evolution, aiming at explaining the emergence of the small world phenomenon, i.e., the statistical observation that any pair of individuals are linked by a short chain of acquaintances computable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-03-04 Augustin Chaintreau , Pierre Fraigniaud , Emmanuelle Lebhar

Motivated by real-world applications such as the allocation of public housing, we examine the problem of assigning a group of agents to vertices (e.g., spatial locations) of a network so that the diversity level is maximized. Specifically,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zirou Qiu , Andrew Yuan , Chen Chen , Madhav V. Marathe , S. S. Ravi , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz , Richard E. Stearns , Anil Vullikanti

Recently, strategic games inspired by Schelling's influential model of residential segregation have been studied in the TCS and AI literature. In these games, agents of k different types occupy the nodes of a network topology aiming to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Lata Narayanan , Yasaman Sabbagh , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We study the structure of the underlying network of connections in the Minority Game. There is not an explicit interaction among the agents, but they interact via global magnitudes of the model and mainly through their strategies. We define…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-02-06 Ines Caridi , Horacio Ceva

Graphical models have been widely applied in solving distributed inference problems in sensor networks. In this paper, the problem of coordinating a network of sensors to train a unique ensemble estimator under communication constraints is…

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The emergence of complex networks from evolutionary games is studied occurring when agents are allowed to switch interaction partners. For this purpose a coevolutionary iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game is defined on a random network with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger Ebel , Stefan Bornholdt

We analyze a class of stochastic processes, referred to as asynchronous and semi-anonymous dynamics (ASD), over directed labeled random networks. These processes are a natural tool to describe general best-response and noisy best-response…

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We derive a class of macroscopic differential equations that describe collective adaptation, starting from a discrete-time stochastic microscopic model. The behavior of each agent is a dynamic balance between adaptation that locally…

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Network congestion games are a well-understood model of multi-agent strategic interactions. Despite their ubiquitous applications, it is not clear whether it is possible to design information structures to ameliorate the overall experience…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Alberto Marchesi , Nicola Gatti

We propose a simple adaptive-network model describing recent swarming experiments. Exploiting an analogy with human decision making, we capture the dynamics of the model by a low-dimensional system of equations permitting analytical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-07-15 Cristián Huepe , Gerd Zschaler , Anne-Ly Do , Thilo Gross

Methods like multi-agent reinforcement learning struggle to scale with growing population size. Mean-field games (MFGs) are a game-theoretic approach that can circumvent this by finding a solution for an abstract infinite population, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Patrick Benjamin , Alessandro Abate

Autonomous wireless agents such as unmanned aerial vehicles or mobile base stations present a great potential for deployment in next-generation wireless networks. While current literature has been mainly focused on the use of agents within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Walid Saad , Zhu Han , Tamer Basar , Merouane Debbah , Are Hjørungnes

We examine a variant of the Naming Game, where agents having several words communicate more often than single-word agents. Depending on the preference and dimensionality, the model either converges to a single-language state as in an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-07 Dorota Lipowska , Adam Lipowski

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have been extensively tested in dyadic game-theoretic scenarios, their collective behavior within complex network games remains surprisingly unexplored. To bridge this gap, we present NetworkGames, a…

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