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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

Collective intelligence emerges across biological, physical, and artificial systems without central coordination, yet a unifying principle governing such behaviour remains elusive. The Free Energy Principle explains how individual agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Djamel Bouchaffra , Faycal Ykhlef , Mustapha Lebbah , Hanane Azzag

We study evolutionary games in a spatial diluted grid environment in which agents strategically interact locally but can also opportunistically move to other positions within a given migration radius. Using the imitation of the best rule…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-17 Pierre Buesser , Marco Tomassini , Alberto Antonioni

We study a spatial two-strategy (cooperation and defection) Prisoner's Dilemma game with two types ($A$ and $B$) of players located on the sites of a square lattice. The evolution of strategy distribution is governed by iterated strategy…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-01-15 Gyorgy Szabo , Attila Szolnoki

A recently introduced concept of "cooperative equilibrium", based on the assumption that players have a natural attitude to cooperation, has been proven a powerful tool in predicting human behaviour in social dilemmas. In this paper, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Valerio Capraro , Maria Polukarov , Matteo Venanzi , Nicholas R. Jennings

Nash equilibrium serves as a fundamental mathematical tool in economics and game theory. However, it classically assumes knowledge of player utilities, whereas economics generally regards preferences as more fundamental. To leverage…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ian Gemp , Crystal Qian , Marc Lanctot , Kate Larson

This paper investigates Nash equilibria in pure strategies for quantum approach to the Prisoner's Dilemma. The quantization process involves extending the classical game by introducing two additional unitary strategies. We consider five…

Epstein introduced an agent-based model called Demographic Prisoner's dilemma. He shows, via simulations, that cooperation in this spatial evolutionary repeated game can be sustained. In order to do proves, we put on this model a particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-22 Sylvain Gibaud

Nash equilibrium is the most commonly-used notion of equilibrium in game theory. However, it suffers from numerous problems. Some are well known in the game theory community; for example, the Nash equilibrium of repeated prisoner's dilemma…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Joseph Y. Halpern

We consider seeking a Nash equilibrium (NE) of a monotone game, played by dynamic agents which are modeled as a class of lower-triangular nonlinear uncertain dynamics with external disturbances. We establish a general framework that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Weijian Li , Yutao Tang

We study a dynamic game with a large population of players who choose actions from a finite set in continuous time. Each player has a state in a finite state space that evolves stochastically with their actions. A player's reward depends…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Leonardo Pedroso , Andrea Agazzi , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Mauro Salazar

A strategy profile in a multi-player game is a Nash equilibrium if no player can unilaterally deviate to achieve a strictly better payoff. A profile is an $\epsilon$-Nash equilibrium if no player can gain more than $\epsilon$ by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ali Asadi , Léonard Brice , Krishnendu Chatterjee , K. S. Thejaswini

The overall aim of our research is to develop techniques to reason about the equilibrium properties of multi-agent systems. We model multi-agent systems as concurrent games, in which each player is a process that is assumed to act…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Julian Gutierrez , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli , Sasha Rubin , Thomas Steeples , Michael Wooldridge

One of the most direct human mechanisms of promoting cooperation is rewarding it. We study the effect of sharing a reward among cooperators in the most stringent form of social dilemma, namely the Prisoner's Dilemma. Specifically, for a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-02-02 J. A. Cuesta , R. Jimenez , H. Lugo , A. Sanchez

Learning in games discusses the processes where multiple players learn their optimal strategies through the repetition of game plays. The dynamics of learning between two players in zero-sum games, such as Matching Pennies, where their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yuma Fujimoto , Kaito Ariu , Kenshi Abe

Starting from a heuristic learning scheme for N-person games, we derive a new class of continuous-time learning dynamics consisting of a replicator-like drift adjusted by a penalty term that renders the boundary of the game's strategy space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pierre Coucheney , Bruno Gaujal , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

We consider a class of continuous-time dynamic games involving a large number of players. Each player selects actions from a finite set and evolves through a finite set of states. State transitions occur stochastically and depend on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Leonardo Pedroso , Andrea Agazzi , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Mauro Salazar

The stable cooperation ratio of spatial evolutionary games has been widely studied using simulations or approximate analysis methods. However, sometimes such ``stable'' cooperation ratios obtained via approximate methods might not be…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-01 Jiangjiang Cheng , Wenjun Mei , Wei Su , Ge Chen

Multi-agent policy-gradient methods have been shown to converge locally near stable Nash equilibria. Local convergence, however, does not determine which equilibrium is reached. We study this question through basin-entry probability with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yevhen Shcherbinin , Arina Redina , Maxim Kalpin , Vlad Kochetov

In this paper, we consider game problems played by (multi)-integrator agents, subject to external disturbances. We propose Nash equilibrium seeking dynamics based on gradient-play, augmented with a dynamic internal-model based component,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Andrew R Romano , Lacra Pavel