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Consider a population of customers each of which needs to decide independently when to arrive to a facility that provides a service during a fixed period of time, say a day. This is a common scenario in many service systems such as a bank,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Moshe Haviv , Liron Ravner

In this paper we analyze an $M/M/1$ queueing system with an arbitrary number of customer classes, with class-dependent exponential service rates and preemptive priorities between classes. The queuing system can be described by a…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Andrei Sleptchenko , Jori Selen , Ivo Adan , Geert-Jan van Houtum

We model a system of n asymmetric firms selling a homogeneous good in a common market through a pay-as-bid auction. Every producer chooses as its strategy a supply function returning the quantity S(p) that it is willing to sell at a minimum…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Martina Vanelli , Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani

We consider a Markovian clearing queueing system, where the customers are accumulated according to a Poisson arrival process and the server removes all present customers at the completion epochs of exponential service cycles. This system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-26 Antonis Economou , Athanasia Manou

We consider a queuing network that opens at a specified time, where customers are non-atomic and belong to different classes. Each class has its own route, and as is typical in the literature, the costs are a linear function of waiting and…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Agniv Bandyopadhyay , Sandeep Juneja

We study the impact of strategic behavior in labor markets characterized by algorithmic monoculture, where firms compete for a shared pool of applicants using a common algorithmic evaluation. In this setting, "naive" hiring strategies lead…

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We consider a discrete population of users with homogeneous service demand who need to decide when to arrive to a system in which the service rate deteriorates linearly with the number of users in the system. The users have heterogeneous…

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A supermarket game is considered with $N$ FCFS queues with unit exponential service rate and global Poisson arrival rate $N \lambda$. Upon arrival each customer chooses a number of queues to be sampled uniformly at random and joins the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Jiaming Xu , Bruce Hajek

We consider the scenario where $N$ utilities strategically bid for electricity in the day-ahead market and balance the mismatch between the committed supply and actual demand in the real-time market, with uncertainty in demand and local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Tianyu Zhao , Hanling Yi , Minghua Chen , Chenye Wu , Yunjian Xu

Demand response has been a promising solution for accommodating renewable energy in power systems. In this study, we consider a demand response scheme within a distribution network facing an energy supply deficit. The utility company…

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In this paper we present a new competitive packet routing model with edge priorities. We consider players that route selfishly through a network over time and try to reach their destinations as fast as possible. If the number of players who…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Robert Scheffler , Martin Strehler , Laura Vargas Koch

Auctions are modeled as Bayesian games with continuous type and action spaces. Determining equilibria in auction games is computationally hard in general and no exact solution theory is known. We introduce an algorithmic framework in which…

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We consider a large queueing system that consists of many strategic servers that are weakly interacting. Each server processes jobs from its unique critically loaded buffer and controls the rate of arrivals and departures associated with…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Erhan Bayraktar , Amarjit Budhiraja , Asaf Cohen

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…

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We consider the process of bidding by electricity suppliers in a day-ahead market context where each supplier bids a linear non-decreasing function of her generating capacity with the goal of maximizing her individual profit given other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Ruidi Chen , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Michael C. Caramanis , Panagiotis Andrianesis

We study a game between two firms in which each provide a service based on machine learning. The firms are presented with the opportunity to purchase a new corpus of data, which will allow them to potentially improve the quality of their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Jinshuo Dong , Hadi Elzayn , Shahin Jabbari , Michael Kearns , Zachary Schutzman

The all-pay auction, a classic competitive model, is widely applied in scenarios such as political elections, sports competitions, and research and development, where all participants pay their bids regardless of winning or losing. However,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-24 Yan Liu , Ying Qin , Zihe Wang

We study noncooperative games, in which each player's objective is composed of a sequence of ordered- and potentially conflicting-preferences. Problems of this type naturally model a wide variety of scenarios: for example, drivers at a busy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dong Ho Lee , Lasse Peters , David Fridovich-Keil

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…

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