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Overcoming the impact of selfish behavior of rational players in multiagent systems is a fundamental problem in game theory. Without any intervention from a central agent, strategic users take actions in order to maximize their personal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Maria-Florina Balcan , Matteo Pozzi , Dravyansh Sharma

Congestion games are a classical type of games studied in game theory, in which n players choose a resource, and their individual cost increases with the number of other players choosing the same resource. In network congestion games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Nathalie Bertrand , Nicolas Markey , Suman Sadhukhan , Ocan Sankur

We discuss the connection between a class of distributed quantum games, with remotely located players, to the counter intuitive Braess' paradox of traffic flow that is an important design consideration in generic networks where the addition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Neal Solmeyer , Ricky Dixon , Radhakrishnan Balu

Traditional selfish routing literature quantifies inefficiency in transportation systems with single-attribute costs using price-of-anarchy (PoA), and provides various technical approaches (e.g. marginal cost pricing) to improve PoA of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Sainath Sanga , Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla , Sajal K. Das

We introduce a class of resource games where resources and preferences are specified with the language of a resource-sensitive logic. The agents are endowed with a bag of resources and try to achieve a resource objective. For each agent, an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Nicolas Troquard

This paper investigates the relationship between the team-optimal solution and the Nash equilibrium (NE) to assess the impact of self-interested decisions on team performance. In classical team decision problems, team members typically act…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Gehui Xu , Thomas Parisini , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Collaborative edge computing (CEC) is an emerging paradigm where heterogeneous edge devices collaborate to fulfill computation tasks, such as model training or video processing, by sharing communication and computation resources.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jinkun Zhang , Yuezhou Liu , Edmund Yeh

Reinforcement learning from self-play has recently reported many successes. Self-play, where the agents compete with themselves, is often used to generate training data for iterative policy improvement. In previous work, heuristic rules are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yuanyi Zhong , Yuan Zhou , Jian Peng

We present new coordination mechanisms for scheduling selfish jobs on $m$ unrelated machines. A coordination mechanism aims to mitigate the impact of selfishness of jobs on the efficiency of schedules by defining a local scheduling policy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Ioannis Caragiannis

One common assumption in game theory is that any player optimizes a utility function that takes into account only its own payoff. However, it has long been observed that in real life players may adopt an altruistic or even spiteful…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Michail Fasoulakis , Leonidas Bakopoulos , Charilaos Akasiadis , Georgios Chalkiadakis

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to increase the capacity of roads via platooning, even when human drivers and autonomous vehicles share roads. However, when users of a road network choose their routes selfishly, the resulting traffic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Erdem Bıyık , Daniel A. Lazar , Dorsa Sadigh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Routing games are used to to understand the impact of individual users' decisions on network efficiency. Most prior work on routing games uses a simplified model of network flow where all flow exists simultaneously, and users care about…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Umang Bhaskar , Lisa Fleischer , Elliot Anshelevich

We study routing behavior in transportation networks with mixed autonomy, that is, networks in which a fraction of the vehicles on each road are equipped with autonomous capabilities such as adaptive cruise control that enable reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Daniel A. Lazar , Samuel Coogan , Ramtin Pedarsani

How should cities invest to improve social welfare when individuals respond strategically to local conditions? We model this question using a game-theoretic version of Schelling's bounded neighbourhood model, where agents choose…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Martin Gairing , Adrian Vetta , Zhanzhan Zhao

Understanding real-world networks has been a core research endeavor throughout the last two decades. Network Creation Games are a promising approach for this from a game-theoretic perspective. In these games, selfish agents corresponding to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Davide Bilò , Tobias Friedrich , Pascal Lenzner , Stefanie Lowski , Anna Melnichenko

Autonomous racing extends beyond the challenge of controlling a racecar at its physical limits. Professional racers employ strategic maneuvers to outwit other competing opponents to secure victory. While modern control algorithms can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Dvij Kalaria , Chinmay Maheshwari , Shankar Sastry

In modern transportation networks, adversaries can manipulate routing algorithms using false data injection attacks, such as simulating heavy traffic with multiple devices running crowdsourced navigation applications, to mislead vehicles…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Taha Eghtesad , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Aron Laszka

Today's networks consist of many autonomous entities that follow their own objectives, i.e., smart devices or parts of large AI systems, that are interconnected. Given the size and complexity of most communication networks, each entity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Pascal Lenzner , Paraskevi Machaira

Many policy problems involve designing individualized treatment allocation rules to maximize the equilibrium social welfare of interacting agents. Focusing on large-scale simultaneous decision games with strategic complementarities, we…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-11-12 Guanyi Wang

We consider a discrete-time nonatomic routing game with variable demand and uncertain costs. Given a routing network with single origin and destination, the cost function of each edge depends on some uncertain persistent state parameter. At…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-10-04 Emilien Macault , Marco Scarsini , Tristan Tomala