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Designing optimal interdependent networks is important for the robustness and efficiency of national critical infrastructures. Here, we establish a two-person game-theoretic model in which two network designers choose to maximize the global…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Juntao Chen , Quanyan Zhu

We study the mechanism design problem in the setting where agents are rewarded using information only. This problem is motivated by the increasing interest in secure multiparty computation techniques. More specifically, we consider the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Simina Brânzei , Claudio Orlandi , Guang Yang

Understanding and predicting player movement in multiplayer games is crucial for achieving use cases such as player-mimicking bot navigation, preemptive bot control, strategy recommendation, and real-time player behavior analytics. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jonas Peche , Aliaksei Tsishurou , Alexander Zap , Guenter Wallner

In this work, we consider the problem of autonomous racing with multiple agents where agents must interact closely and influence each other to compete. We model interactions among agents through a game-theoretical framework and propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yixuan Jia , Maulik Bhatt , Negar Mehr

We introduce Game networks (G nets), a novel representation for multi-agent decision problems. Compared to other game-theoretic representations, such as strategic or extensive forms, G nets are more structured and more compact; more…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Pierfrancesco La Mura

In many real-world settings agents engage in strategic interactions with multiple opposing agents who can employ a wide variety of strategies. The standard approach for designing agents for such settings is to compute or approximate a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Sam Ganzfried , Kevin A. Wang , Max Chiswick

A large body of research is currently investigating on the connection between machine learning and game theory. In this work, game theory notions are injected into a preference learning framework. Specifically, a preference learning problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Mirko Polato , Fabio Aiolli

Mechanism design is essentially reverse engineering of games and involves inducing a game among strategic agents in a way that the induced game satisfies a set of desired properties in an equilibrium of the game. Desirable properties for a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 V. Udaya Sankar , Vishisht Srihari Rao , Mayank Ratan Bhardwaj , Y. Narahari

A recent theory shows that a multi-player decentralized partially observable Markov decision process can be transformed into an equivalent single-player game, enabling the application of \citeauthor{bellman}'s principle of optimality to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Johan Peralez , Aurélien Delage , Olivier Buffet , Jilles S. Dibangoye

We study preference learning through recommendations in multi-agent game settings, where a moderator repeatedly interacts with agents whose utility functions are unknown. In each round, the moderator issues action recommendations and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Arwa Alanqary , Zakaria Baba , Manxi Wu , Alexandre M. Bayen

In machine learning or scientific computing, model performance is measured with an objective function. But why choose one objective over another? Information theory gives one answer: To maximize the information in the model, select the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Timothy O. Hodson , Thomas M. Over , Tyler J. Smith , Lucy M. Marshall

The complexity of computer games is ever increasing. In this setup, guiding an automated test algorithm to find a solution to solve a testing task in a game's huge interaction space is very challenging. Having a model of a system to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Samira Shirzadehhajimahmood , I. S. W. B. Prasetya , Frank Dignum , Mehdi Dastani

In this paper we introduce a qualitative decision and game theory based on belief (B) and desire (D) rules. We show that a group of agents acts as if it is maximizing achieved joint goals.

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mehdi Dastani , Leendert van der Torre

How to take multiple factors into account when evaluating a Game with a Purpose? How is player behaviour or participation influenced by different incentives? How does player engagement impact their accuracy in solving tasks? In this paper,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Gloria Re Calegari , Irene Celino

An overview of game-theoretic approaches to energy-efficient resource allocation in wireless networks is presented. Focusing on multiple-access networks, it is demonstrated that game theory can be used as an effective tool to study resource…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Farhad Meshkati , H. Vincent Poor , Stuart C. Schwartz

Energy parity games are infinite two-player turn-based games played on weighted graphs. The objective of the game combines a (qualitative) parity condition with the (quantitative) requirement that the sum of the weights (i.e., the level of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-04 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen

We study mechanism design settings where the planner has an interest in agents receiving noisy signals about the types of other agents. We show that additional information about other agents can eliminate undesired equilibria, making it…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-24 Eric Yan

The task of managing general game playing in a multi-agent system is the problem addressed in this paper. It is considered to be done by an agent. There are many reasons for constructing such an agent, called general game management agent.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Rustam Tagiew

The problem of computing a common point that lies in the intersection of a finite number of closed convex sets, each known to one agent in a network, is studied. This issue, known as the distributed convex feasibility problem or the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Dimitris Ampeliotis , Kostas Berberidis

We explore a class of stochastic multiplayer games where each player in the game aims to optimize its objective under uncertainty and adheres to some expectation constraints. The study employs an offline learning paradigm, leveraging a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Yuanhanqing Huang , Jianghai Hu