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The Bonacich centrality is a well-known measure of the relative importance of nodes in a network. This notion is, for example, at the core of Google's PageRank algorithm. In this paper we study a network formation game where each player…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Maria Castaldo , Costanza Catalano , Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani

In this paper, we examine the robustness of Nash equilibria in continuous games, under both strategic and dynamic uncertainty. Starting with the former, we introduce the notion of a robust equilibrium as those equilibria that remain…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Kyriakos Lotidis , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Nicholas Bambos , Jose Blanchet

We consider spanning trees of $n$ points in convex position whose edges are pairwise non-crossing. Applying a flip to such a tree consists in adding an edge and removing another so that the result is still a non-crossing spanning tree.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Nicolas Bousquet , Valentin Gledel , Jonathan Narboni , Théo Pierron

Understanding real-world networks has been a core research endeavor throughout the last two decades. Network Creation Games are a promising approach for this from a game-theoretic perspective. In these games, selfish agents corresponding to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Davide Bilò , Tobias Friedrich , Pascal Lenzner , Stefanie Lowski , Anna Melnichenko

How do rational agents self-organize when trying to connect to a common target? We study this question with a simple tree formation game which is related to the well-known fair single-source connection game by Anshelevich et al. (FOCS'04)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Davide Bilò , Tobias Friedrich , Pascal Lenzner , Anna Melnichenko , Louise Molitor

We propose and study a model of strategic network design and exploration where the hider, subject to a budget constraint restricting the number of links, chooses a connected network and the location of an object. Meanwhile, the seeker, not…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-21 Francis Bloch , Bhaskar Dutta , Marcin Dziubiński

One key in real-life Nash equilibrium applications is to calibrate players' cost functions. To leverage the approximation ability of neural networks, we proposed a general framework for optimizing and learning Nash equilibrium using neural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Di Zhang , Wei Gu , Qing Jin

The common sense suggests that networks are not random mazes of purposeless connections, but that these connections are organised so that networks can perform their functions well. One function common to many networks is targeted transport…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-24 András Gulyás , József Bíró , Attila Kőrösi , Gábor Rétvári , Dmitri Krioukov

In the network design game with $n$ players, every player chooses a path in an edge-weighted graph to connect her pair of terminals, sharing costs of the edges on her path with all other players fairly. We study the price of stability of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Akaki Mamageishvili , Matúš Mihalák , Simone Montemezzani

We present a network influence game that models players strategically seeding the opinions of nodes embedded in a social network. A social learning dynamic, whereby nodes repeatedly update their opinions to resemble those of their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Samuel D. Johnson , Jemin George , Raissa M. D'Souza

In evolutionary game theory, evolutionarily stable states are characterised by the folk theorem because exact solutions to the replicator equation are difficult to obtain. It is generally assumed that the folk theorem, which is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Jiawei Li , Graham Kendall

Computational aspects of solution notions such as Nash equilibrium have been extensively studied, including settings where the ultimate goal is to find an equilibrium that possesses some additional properties. Furthermore, in order to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bruce M. Kapron , Koosha Samieefar

We design a distributed algorithm to seek generalized Nash equilibria of a robust game with uncertain coupled constraints. Due to the uncertainty of parameters in set constraints, we aim to find a generalized Nash equilibrium in the worst…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Gehui Xu , Guanpu Chen , Hongsheng Qi

In Feinstein and Rudloff (2023), it was shown that the set of Nash equilibria for any non-cooperative $N$ player game coincides with the set of Pareto optimal points of a certain vector optimization problem with non-convex ordering cone. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Zachary Feinstein , Niklas Hey , Birgit Rudloff

We introduce a novel class of Nash equilibrium seeking dynamics for non-cooperative games with a finite number of players, where the convergence to the Nash equilibrium is bounded by a KL function with a settling time that can be upper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Jorge I. Poveda , Miroslav Krstic , Tamer Basar

In this paper, the problem of finding a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) of a networked game is studied. Players are only able to choose their decisions from a feasible action set. The feasible set is considered to be a private linear…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Farzad Salehisadaghiani , Lacra Pavel

Nash equilibrium has long been a desired solution concept in multi-player games, especially for those on continuous strategy spaces, which have attracted a rapidly growing amount of interests due to advances in research applications such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Zehao Dou , Xiang Yan , Dongge Wang , Xiaotie Deng

We provide a strategic model of the formation of production networks that subsumes the standard general equilibrium approach. The objective of firms in our setting is to choose their supply relationships so as to maximize their profit at…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-05-07 Antoine Mandel , Van-Quy Nguyen , Bach Dong-Xuan

We use techniques from the statistical mechanics of disordered systems to analyse the properties of Nash equilibria of bimatrix games with large random payoff matrices. By means of an annealed bound, we calculate their number and analyse…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Johannes Berg , Martin Weigt

We consider a gossip approach for finding a Nash equilibrium in a distributed multi-player network game. We extend previous results on Nash equilibrium seeking to the case when the players' cost functions may be affected by the actions of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Farzad Salehisadaghiani , Lacra Pavel