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In this paper, we study the distributed generalized Nash equilibrium seeking problem of non-cooperative games in dynamic environments. Each player in the game aims to minimize its own time-varying cost function subject to a local action…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Kaihong Lu , Guangqi Li , Long Wang

This paper aims to design a distributed coordination algorithm for solving a multi-agent decision problem with a hierarchical structure. The primary goal is to search the Nash equilibrium of a noncooperative game such that each player has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Xiaoyu Ma , Jinlong Lei , Peng Yi , Jie Chen

Distributed learning and adaptation have received significant interest and found wide-ranging applications in machine learning and signal processing. While various approaches, such as shared-memory optimization, multi-task learning, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Pourya Behmandpoor , Marc Moonen , Panagiotis Patrinos

We study distributionally robust Markov games (DR-MGs) with the average-reward criterion, a framework for multi-agent decision-making under uncertainty over extended horizons. In average reward DR-MGs, agents aim to maximize their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Zachary Roch , Yue Wang

This paper presents a game theoretic solution for joint channel allocation and power control in cognitive radio networks analyzed under the physical interference model. The objective is to find a distributed solution that maximizes the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-29 J. R. Gallego , M. Canales , J. Ortin

Suppose that a set of $m$ tasks are to be shared as equally as possible amongst a set of $n$ resources. A game-theoretic mechanism to find a suitable allocation is to associate each task with a ``selfish agent'', and require each agent to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Petra Berenbrink , Tom Friedetzky , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Paul Goldberg , Zengjian Hu , Russell Martin

In this work, we study stochastic one-shot games where agents' utilities depend on the collective strategy profiles of other agents as well as on some well-behaved randomness. While each decision-maker is agnostic to the random variable's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Nirabhra Mandal , Sonia Martínez

In this paper, we study a distributed continuous-time design for aggregative games with coupled constraints in order to seek the generalized Nash equilibrium by a group of agents via simple local information exchange. To solve the problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Shu Liang , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong

Learning in games provides a powerful framework to design control policies for self-interested agents that may be coupled through their dynamics, costs, or constraints. We consider the case where the dynamics of the coupled system can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Mostafa M. Shibl , Vijay Gupta

How can non-communicating agents learn to share congested resources efficiently? This is a challenging task when the agents can access the same resource simultaneously (in contrast to multi-agent multi-armed bandit problems) and the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tomer Boyarski , Amir Leshem , Vikram Krishnamurthy

This paper considers the distributed strategy design for Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking in multi-cluster games under a partial-decision information scenario. In the considered game, there are multiple clusters and each cluster consists of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Min Meng , Xiuxian Li

In current power distribution systems, one of the most challenging operation tasks is to coordinate the network- wide distributed energy resources (DERs) to maintain the stability of voltage magnitude of the system. This voltage control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Kaiqing Zhang , Wei Shi , Hao Zhu , Tamer Başar

This paper provides a novel solution to a task allocation problem, by which a group of agents decides on the assignment of a discrete set of tasks in a distributed manner. In this setting, heterogeneous agents have individual preferences…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Nirabhra Mandal , Mohammad Khajenejad , Sonia Martínez

This paper investigates a resilient distributed Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking problem on a directed communication network subject to malicious cyber-attacks. The considered attacks, named as Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, are allowed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-23 Zhi Feng , Guoqiang Hu

This paper considers a class of strategic scenarios in which two networks of agents have opposing objectives with regards to the optimization of a common objective function. In the resulting zero-sum game, individual agents collaborate with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-24 Bahman Gharesifard , Jorge Cortes

This paper investigates Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking problems for noncooperative games over multi-players networks with finite bandwidth communication. A distributed quantized algorithm is presented, which consists of local gradient play,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Ziqin Chen , Ji Ma , Shu Liang , Li Li

Motivated by applications in job scheduling, queuing networks, and load balancing in cyber-physical systems, we develop and analyze a game-theoretic framework to balance the load among servers in static and dynamic settings. In these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Fatemeh Fardno , S. Rasoul Etesami

To achieve an optimal outcome in many situations, agents need to choose distinct actions from one another. This is the case notably in many resource allocation problems, where a single resource can only be used by one agent at a time. How…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Ludek Cigler , Boi Faltings

Social utility maximization refers to the process of allocating resources in such a way that the sum of agents' utilities is maximized under the system constraints. Such allocation arises in several problems in the general area of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Abhinav Sinha , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

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