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In the present work, we consider 2-person zero-sum stochastic differential games with a nonlinear pay-off functional which is defined through a backward stochastic differential equation. Our main objective is to study for such a game the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Marc Quincampoix

We develop a martingale approach for studying continuous-time stochastic differential games of control and stopping, in a non-Markovian framework and with the control affecting only the drift term of the state-process. Under appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-28 Ioannis Karatzas , Ingrid-Mona Zamfirescu

We reveal an interesting convex duality relationship between two problems: (a) minimizing the probability of lifetime ruin when the rate of consumption is stochastic and when the individual can invest in a Black-Scholes financial market;…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2010-08-30 Erhan Bayraktar , Virginia R. Young

Static potential games are non-cooperative games which admit a fictitious function, also referred to as a potential function, such that the minimizers of this function constitute a subset (or a refinement) of the Nash equilibrium strategies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Aathira Prasad , Puduru Viswanadha Reddy

Planning and control for uncertain contact systems is challenging as it is not clear how to propagate uncertainty for planning. Contact-rich tasks can be modeled efficiently using complementarity constraints among other techniques. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yuki Shirai , Devesh K. Jha , Arvind U. Raghunathan

We investigate a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game in which the players have an asymmetric information on the random payoff. We prove that the game has a value and characterize this value in terms of dual solutions of some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Catherine Rainer

This paper studies a system security problem in the context of observability based on a two-person noncooperative infinitely repeated game. Both the attacker and the defender have means to modify the dimension of the unobservable subspace,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Yueyue Xu , Panpan Zhou , Lin Wang , Zhixin Liu , Xiaoming Hu

We study the problem of controlling a linear dynamical system with adversarial perturbations where the only feedback available to the controller is the scalar loss, and the loss function itself is unknown. For this problem, with either a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Paula Gradu , John Hallman , Elad Hazan

We consider a stochastic system whose uncontrolled state dynamics are modelled by a general one-dimensional It\^{o} diffusion. The control effort that can be applied to this system takes the form that is associated with the so-called…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-15 Andrew J. F. Jack , Timothy C. Johnson , Mihail Zervos

We study a class of stochastic target games where one player tries to find a strategy such that the state process almost-surely reaches a given target, no matter which action is chosen by the opponent. Our main result is a geometric dynamic…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Bruno Bouchard , Marcel Nutz

We consider 2-player zero-sum stochastic games where each player controls his own state variable living in a compact metric space. The terminology comes from gambling problems where the state of a player represents its wealth in a casino.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Rida Laraki , Jérôme Renault

This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic partially observed Stackelberg stochastic differential game with correlated state and observation noises, where the diffusion coefficient does not contain the control variable and the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Yueyang Zheng , Jingtao Shi

We introduce games with probabilistic uncertainty, a natural model for controller synthesis in which the controller observes the state of the system through imprecise sensors that provide correct information about the current state with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin Chmelik , Rupak Majumdar

Motivated by the scarcity of accurate payoff feedback in practical applications of game theory, we examine a class of learning dynamics where players adjust their choices based on past payoff observations that are subject to noise and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-03 Mario Bravo , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

We study a generic family of two-player continuous-time nonzero-sum stopping games modeling a war of attrition with symmetric information and stochastic payoffs that depend on an homogeneous linear diffusion. We first show that any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Jean-Paul Décamps , Fabien Gensbittel , Thomas Mariotti

We study self-triggered two-player stochastic games on Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMPs) where each agent decides when to observe and which open-loop action to hold. Augmenting the state with clocks and committed controls…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Yunian Pan , Quanyan Zhu

This paper models a two-agent economy with production and appropriation as a noncooperative dynamic game, and determines its closed-form Markovian Nash equilibrium. The analysis highlights the para-metric conditions that tip the economy…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-04-05 Julio Huato

In this paper, a leader-follower stochastic differential game is studied for a linear stochastic differential equation with a quadratic cost functional. The coefficients in the state equation and the weighting matrices in the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Zixuan Li , Jingtao Shi

This paper studies a risk-sensitive decision-making problem under uncertainty. It considers a decision-making process that unfolds over a fixed number of stages, in which a decision-maker chooses among multiple alternatives, some of which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Chung-Han Hsieh , Yi-Shan Wong

Ensuring robust decision-making in multi-agent systems is challenging when agents have distinct, possibly conflicting objectives and lack full knowledge of each other's strategies. This is apparent in safety-critical applications such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Francesco Bianchin , Robert Lefringhausen , Elisa Gaetan , Samuel Tesfazgi , Sandra Hirche