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Strategic interactions often take place in an environment rife with uncertainty. As a result, the equilibrium of a game is intimately related to the information available to its players. The \emph{signaling problem} abstracts the task faced…

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We propose a decentralized solution for a pursuit-evasion game involving a heterogeneous group of rational (selfish) pursuers and a single evader based on the framework of potential games. In the proposed game, the evader aims to delay (or,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-19 Yoonjae Lee , Efstathios Bakolas

In cooperative game theory, the primary focus is the equitable allocation of payoffs or costs among agents. However, in the practical applications of cooperative games, accurately representing games is challenging. In such cases, using an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Soh Kumabe , Yuichi Yoshida

We unify standard frameworks for approachability both in full or partial monitoring by defining a new abstract game, called the "purely informative game", where the outcome at each stage is the maximal information players can obtain,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-17 Vianney Perchet , Marc Quincampoix

Parity games are combinatorial representations of closed Boolean mu-terms. By adding to them draw positions, they have been organized by Arnold and one of the authors into a mu-calculus. As done by Berwanger et al. for the propositional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-03-13 Walid Belkhir , Luigi Santocanale

Games on graphs provide a natural model for reactive non-terminating systems. In such games, the interaction of two players on an arena results in an infinite path that describes a run of the system. Different settings are used to model…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Nathanaël Fijalkow

We consider two-player games over finite graphs in which both players are restricted by fairness constraints on their moves. Given a two player game graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set of fair moves $E_f\subseteq E$ a player is said to play "fair" in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Daniel Hausmann , Nir Piterman , Irmak Sağlam , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

Projection games constitute an important class of nonlocal games where, for any answer from the first player, there is a unique correct answer for the second player. This class of games captures nonlocal games arising from constraint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Eric Culf

What does it mean to fully understand the behavior of a network of adaptive agents? The golden standard typically is the behavior of learning dynamics in potential games, where many evolutionary dynamics, e.g., replicator, are known to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Ioannis Panageas , Georgios Piliouras

In game theory, mechanism design is concerned with the design of incentives so that a desired outcome of the game can be achieved. In this paper, we study the design of incentives so that a desirable equilibrium is obtained, for instance,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Julian Gutierrez , Muhammad Najib , Giuseppe Perelli , Michael Wooldridge

We study the attractor of Iterated Function Systems composed of infinitely many affine, homogeneous maps. In the special case of second generation IFS, defined herein, we conjecture that the attractor consists of a finite number of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-11-20 Giorgio Mantica

Propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers, which typically operate using conjunctive normal form (CNF), have been successfully applied in many domains. However, in some application areas such as circuit verification, bounded model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Tero Laitinen , Tommi Junttila , Ilkka Niemelä

Solvency games, introduced by Berger et al., provide an abstract framework for modelling decisions of a risk-averse investor, whose goal is to avoid ever going broke. We study a new variant of this model, where, in addition to stochastic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Tomáš Brázdil , Taolue Chen , Vojtěch Forejt , Petr Novotný , Aistis Simaitis

This paper reframes approachability theory within the context of population games. Thus, whilst one player aims at driving her average payoff to a predefined set, her opponent is not malevolent but rather extracted randomly from a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-16 Dario Bauso , Thomas W L Norman

M\"uller games form a well-established class of games for model checking and verification. These games are played on directed graphs $\mathcal G$ where Player 0 and Player 1 play by generating an infinite path through the graph. The winner…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zihui Liang , Bakh Khoussainov , Mingyu Xiao

Recently Cristian S. Calude, Sanjay Jain, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, Wei Li and Frank Stephan proposed a quasi-polynomial time algorithm for parity games. This paper proposes a short proof of correctness of their algorithm.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Hugo Gimbert , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen

We study countably infinite MDPs with parity objectives. Unlike in finite MDPs, optimal strategies need not exist, and may require infinite memory if they do. We provide a complete picture of the exact strategy complexity of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Stefan Kiefer , Richard Mayr , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , Patrick Totzke

The window mechanism, introduced by Chatterjee et al. for mean-payoff and total-payoff objectives in two-player turn-based games on graphs, refines long-term objectives with time bounds. This mechanism has proven useful in a variety of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 James C. A. Main , Mickael Randour , Jeremy Sproston

Regular games form a well-established class of games for analysis and synthesis of reactive systems. They include coloured Muller games, McNaughton games, Muller games, Rabin games, and Streett games. These games are played on directed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zihui Liang , Bakh Khoussainov , Mingyu Xiao

We investigate the longtime behavior of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with differential operators that depend on time and the underlying probability space. In particular, we consider stochastic parabolic evolution…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Christian Kuehn , Alexandra Neamtu , Stefanie Sonner