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This paper is concerned with the closed-loop solvability of one kind of linear-quadratic Stackelberg stochastic differential game, where the coefficients are deterministic. The notion of the closed-loop solvability is introduced, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Zixuan Li , Jingtao Shi

We explore a scenario involving two sites and a sequential game between a defender and an attacker, where the defender is responsible for securing the sites while the attacker aims to attack them. Each site holds a loss value for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Md Reya Shad Azim , Mustafa Abdallah

This paper studies a two-person linear-quadratic-Gaussian pursuit-evasion differential game with costly but controlled information. One player can decide when to observe the other player's state. However, one observation of another player's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Yunhan Huang , Quanyan Zhu

In this work, we extend the convex bodies chasing problem (CBC) to an adversarial setting, where an agent (the Player) is tasked with chasing a sequence of convex bodies generated adversarially by another agent (the Opponent). The Player…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Yue Guan , Longxu Pan , Daigo Shishika , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper provides a decomposition technique for the purpose of simplifying the solution of certain zero-sum differential games. The games considered terminate when the state reaches a target, which can be expressed as the union of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Adriano Festa , Richard Vinter

This paper investigates a reach-avoid game between two players with damped double integrator dynamics. An optimal state-feedback strategy is derived using a differential game framework combined with geometric analysis. To facilitate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Mengxin Lyu , Ruiliang Deng , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

The paper deals with a zero-sum differential game in which the dynamical system is described by a fractional differential equation with the Caputo derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0, 1).$ The goal of the first (second) player is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Mikhail Gomoyunov

We consider two-player turn-based games with zero-reachability and zero-safety objectives generated by extended vector addition systems with states. Although the problem of deciding the winner in such games is undecidable in general, we…

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The paper studies the open-loop saddle point and the open-loop lower and upper values, as well as their relationship for two-person zero-sum stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) differential games with deterministic coefficients. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Jingrui Sun

Two-player games have had a long and fruitful history of applications stretching across the social, biological, and physical sciences. Most applications of two-player games assume synchronous decisions or moves even when the games are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Robert D. Young

We consider a class of zero-sum stopper vs. singular-controller games in which the controller can only act on a subset $d_0<d$ of the $d$ coordinates of a controlled diffusion. Due to the constraint on the control directions these games…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Andrea Bovo , Tiziano De Angelis , Jan Palczewski

We study a pursuit-evasion game between two players with car-like dynamics and sensing limitations by formalizing it as a partially observable stochastic zero-sum game. The partial observability caused by the sensing constraints is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Burak M. Gonultas , Volkan Isler

We propose a hybrid approach that combines Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability and mixed-integer optimization for solving a reach-avoid game with multiple attackers and defenders. The reach-avoid game is an important problem with potential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Hanyang Hu , Minh Bui , Mo Chen

We consider a pursuit-evasion differential game with a Hybrid system of dynamics in Hilbert space with integral constraints on the control functions of players. We show that the pursuer has a winning strategy.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Mehdi Salimi

The paper is concerned with two-person zero-sum mean-field linear-quadratic stochastic differential games over finite horizons. By a Hilbert space method, a necessary condition and a sufficient condition are derived for the existence of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Jingrui Sun , Hanxiao Wang , Zhen Wu

This paper is concerned with the controller-and-stopper stochastic differential game under a regime switching model in an infinite horizon. The state of the system consists of a number of diffusions \emph{coupled} by a continuous-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Siyu Lv

In this paper, we consider a partial observed two-person zero-sum stochastic differential game problem where the system is governed by a stochastic differential equation of mean-field type. Under standard assumptions on the coefficients,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Maoning Tang , Qingxin Meng

This paper proposes a new method for finding closed-loop saddle points in zero-sum linear-quadratic stochastic differential games by decoupling their inherent structure. Specifically, we develop a nested iterative scheme that constructs a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Yiyuan Wang

This paper introduces alignment games, a new class of zero-sum games modeling strategic interventions where effectiveness depends on alignment with an underlying hidden state. Motivated by operational problems in medical diagnostics,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Pedro Cesar Lopes Gerum , Thomas Lidbetter

This paper is about a set-based computing method for solving a general class of two-player zero-sum Stackelberg differential games. We assume that the game is modeled by a set of coupled nonlinear differential equations, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Xuhui Feng , Mario E. Villanueva , Boris Houska