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Incentive design is a popular framework for guiding agents' learning dynamics towards desired outcomes by providing additional payments beyond intrinsic rewards. However, most existing works focus on a finite, small set of agents or assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Leo Widmer , Jiawei Huang , Niao He

Inspired by the path coordination problem arising from robo-taxis, warehouse management, and mixed-vehicle routing problems, we model a group of heterogeneous players responding to stochastic demands as a congestion game under Markov…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Sarah H. Q. Li , Dan Calderone , Behcet Acikmese

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

The model of congestion games is widely used to analyze games related to traffic and communication. A central property of these games is that they are potential games and hence posses a pure Nash equilibrium. In reality it is often the case…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-17 Sergey Kuniavsky , Rann Smorodinsky

To steer the behavior of selfish, resource-sharing agents in a socio-technical system towards the direction of higher efficiency, the system designer requires accurate models of both agent behaviors and the underlying system infrastructure.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chih-Yuan Chiu , Bryce L. Ferguson

We study the subclass of singleton congestion games with identical and increasing cost functions, i.e., each agent tries to utilize from the least crowded resource in her accessible subset of resources. Our main contribution is a novel…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Bugra Caskurlu , Ozgun Ekici , Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya

This paper studies a class of strongly monotone games involving non-cooperative agents that optimize their own time-varying cost functions. We assume that the agents can observe other agents' historical actions and choose actions that best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Zifan Wang , Yi Shen , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

This paper studies the monotonicity of equilibrium costs and equilibrium loads in nonatomic congestion games, in response to variations of the demands. The main goal is to identify conditions under which a paradoxical non-monotone behavior…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Roberto Cominetti , Valerio Dose , Marco Scarsini

The congestion game is a powerful model that encompasses a range of engineering systems such as traffic networks and resource allocation. It describes the behavior of a group of agents who share a common set of $F$ facilities and take…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jing Dong , Jingyu Wu , Siwei Wang , Baoxiang Wang , Wei Chen

Modeling the purposeful behavior of imperfect agents from a small number of observations is a challenging task. When restricted to the single-agent decision-theoretic setting, inverse optimal control techniques assume that observed behavior…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Kevin Waugh , Brian D. Ziebart , J. Andrew Bagnell

We propose a Model Predictive Control (MPC) for collision avoidance between an autonomous agent and dynamic obstacles with uncertain predictions. The collision avoidance constraints are imposed by enforcing positive distance between convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Siddharth H. Nair , Eric H. Tseng , Francesco Borrelli

Road network junctions, such as merges and diverges, often act as bottlenecks that initiate and exacerbate congestion. More complex junction configurations lead to more complex driver behaviors, resulting in aggregate congestion patterns…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Ruolin Li , Negar Mehr , Roberto Horowitz

Under the Markov decision process (MDP) congestion game framework, we study the problem of enforcing population distribution constraints on a population of players with stochastic dynamics and coupled congestion costs. Existing research…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Sarah H. Q. Li , Yue Yu , Nicolas Miguel , Dan Calderone , Lillian J. Ratliff , Behcet Acikmese

The optimization of facility-based systems is considered. First, the congestion game is converted into a matrix form, so that the matrix approach is applicable. Then, a facility-based system with a system performance criterion is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Yaqi Hao , Sisi Pan , Yupeng Qiao , Daizhan Cheng

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Richard Southwell , Jianwei Huang , Biying Shou

We evaluate the robustness of agents' traffic equilibria in randomized routing games characterized by an uncertain network demand with a possibly unknown probability distribution. Specifically, we extend the so-called hose model by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Filippo Fabiani

How is efficiency affected when demand excesses over supply are signalled through waiting in queues? We consider a class of congestion games with a nonatomic set of players of a constant mass, based on a formulation of generic linear…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Costas Courcoubetis , Antonis Dimakis

In this work, we consider the problem of autonomous racing with multiple agents where agents must interact closely and influence each other to compete. We model interactions among agents through a game-theoretical framework and propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yixuan Jia , Maulik Bhatt , Negar Mehr

In this paper, we study multi-agent network games subject to affine time-varying coupling constraints and a time-varying communication network. We focus on the class of games adopting proximal dynamics and study their convergence to a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Carlo Cenedese , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Sergio Grammatico , Ming Cao

We study discrete-time, finite-state mean-field games (MFGs) under model uncertainty, where agents face ambiguity about the state transition probabilities. Each agent maximizes its expected payoff against the worst-case transitions within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Zongxia Liang , Zhou Zhou , Yaqi Zhuang , Bin Zou