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We analyze a game-theoretic abstraction of epidemic containment played on an undirected graph $G$: each player is associated with a node in $G$ and can either acquire protection from a contagious process or risk infection. After decisions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Mason DiCicco , Henry Poskanzer , Daniel Reichman

We consider non-cooperative unsplittable congestion games where players share resources, and each player's strategy is pure and consists of a subset of the resources on which it applies a fixed weight. Such games represent unsplittable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Rajgopal Kannan , Costas Busch , Paul Spirakis

We study non-atomic congestion games on parallel-link networks with affine cost functions. We investigate the power of machine-learned predictions in the design of coordination mechanisms aimed at minimizing the impact of selfishness. Our…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 George Christodoulou , Vasilis Christoforidis , Alkmini Sgouritsa , Ioannis Vlachos

We study Nash equilibria in the network creation game of Fabrikant et al.[10]. In this game a vertex can buy an edge to another vertex for a cost of $\alpha$, and the objective of each vertex is to minimize the sum of the costs of the edges…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Jack Dippel , Adrian Vetta

The emergence of new communication technologies allows us to expand our understanding of distributed control and consider collaborative decision-making paradigms. With collaborative algorithms, certain local decision-making entities (or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Bryce L. Ferguson , Dario Paccagnan , Bary S. R. Pradelski , Jason R. Marden

Federated learning is a distributed learning paradigm where multiple agents, each only with access to local data, jointly learn a global model. There has recently been an explosion of research aiming not only to improve the accuracy rates…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg

We study cost-sharing games in real-time scheduling systems where the activation cost of the server at any given time is a function of its load. We focus on monomial cost functions and consider both the case when the degree is less than one…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Eirini Georgoulaki , Kostas Kollias

Residential segregation in metropolitan areas is a phenomenon that can be observed all over the world. Recently, this was investigated via game-theoretic models. There, selfish agents of two types are equipped with a monotone utility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Davide Bilò , Vittorio Bilò , Pascal Lenzner , Louise Molitor

We study the price of anarchy in a class of graph coloring games (a subclass of polymatrix common-payoff games). In those games, players are vertices of an undirected, simple graph, and the strategy space of each player is the set of colors…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Lasse Kliemann , Elmira Shirazi Sheykhdarabadi , Anand Srivastav

In this paper we introduce a capacity allocation game which models the problem of maximizing network utility from the perspective of distributed noncooperative agents. Motivated by the idea of self-managed networks, in the developed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Dariusz Gcasior , Maciej Drwal

We study a network congestion game of discrete-time dynamic traffic of atomic agents with a single origin-destination pair. Any agent freely makes a dynamic decision at each vertex (e.g., road crossing) and traffic is regulated with given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Zhigang Cao , Bo Chen , Xujin Chen , Changjun Wang

Network creation games investigate complex networks from a game-theoretic point of view. Based on the original model by Fabrikant et al. [PODC'03] many variants have been introduced. However, almost all versions have the drawback that edges…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Ankit Chauhan , Pascal Lenzner , Anna Melnichenko , Louise Molitor

During a pandemic people have to find a trade-off between meeting others and staying safely at home. While meeting others is pleasant, it also increases the risk of infection. We consider this dilemma by introducing a game-theoretic network…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tobias Friedrich , Hans Gawendowicz , Pascal Lenzner , Anna Melnichenko

We propose a type of non-cooperative game, termed multi-cluster aggregative game, which is composed of clusters as players, where each cluster consists of collaborative agents with cost functions depending on their own decisions and the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yue Chen , Peng Yi

In a network game, players interact over a network and the utility of each player depends on his own action and on an aggregate of his neighbours' actions. Many real world networks of interest are asymmetric and involve a large number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kiran Rokade , Adit Jain , Francesca Parise , Vikram Krishnamurthy , Eva Tardos

Motivated by applications in social networks, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, we define and study the Bounded Budget Connection (BBC) game - we have a collection of n players or nodes each of whom has a budget for purchasing links; each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-11 Nikolaos Laoutaris , Laura J. Poplawski , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Ravi Sundaram , Shang-Hua Teng

We study selfish routing games where users can choose between regular and priority service for each network edge on their chosen path. Priority users pay an additional fee, but in turn they may travel the edge prior to non-priority users,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yang Li , Alexander Skopalik , Marc Uetz

We study the sum classic network creation game introduced by Fabrikant et al. in which $n$ players conform a network buying links at individual price $\alpha$. When studying this model we are mostly interested in \emph{Nash equilibria}…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Carme Àlvarez , Arnau Messegué

We study the structure and evolution of the Internet's Autonomous System (AS) interconnection topology as a game with heterogeneous players. In this network formation game, the utility of a player depends on the network structure, e.g., the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Eli. A. Meirom , Shie Mannor , Ariel Orda

In \emph{bandwidth allocation games} (BAGs), the strategy of a player consists of various demands on different resources. The player's utility is at most the sum of these demands, provided they are fully satisfied. Every resource has a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Maximilian Drees , Matthias Feldotto , Sören Riechers , Alexander Skopalik