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We consider two-player games played on finite colored graphs where the goal is the construction of an infinite path with one of the following frequency-related properties: (i) all colors occur with the same asymptotic frequency, (ii) there…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Alessandro Bianco , Marco Faella , Fabio Mogavero , Aniello Murano

We examine a two-person game we call Will-Testing in which the strategy space for both players is a real number. It has no equilibrium. When an infinitely large set of players plays this in all possible pairings, there is an equilibrium for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-28 Leonid Gurvits , J. Stephen Judd

We introduce and study Maker/Breaker-type positional games on random graphs. Our main concern is to determine the threshold probability $p_{F}$ for the existence of Maker's strategy to claim a member of $F$ in the unbiased game played on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Milos Stojakovic , Tibor Szabo

We study a recently introduced class of strategic games that is motivated by and generalizes Schelling's well-known residential segregation model. These games are played on undirected graphs, with the set of agents partitioned into multiple…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Aishwarya Agarwal , Edith Elkind , Jiarui Gan , Alexandros A. Voudouris

A recent body of experimental literature has studied empirical game-theoretical analysis, in which we have partial knowledge of a game, consisting of observations of a subset of the pure-strategy profiles and their associated payoffs to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-13 John Fearnley , Martin Gairing , Paul Goldberg , Rahul Savani

We investigate the unbiased model for money exchanges: agents give at random time a dollar to one another (if they have one). Surprisingly, this dynamics eventually leads to a geometric distribution of wealth (shown empirically by…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Fei Cao , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin

In a public goods game, every player chooses whether or not to buy a good that all neighboring players will have access to. We consider a setting in which the good is indivisible, neighboring players are out-neighbors in a directed graph,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Argyrios Deligkas , Gregory Gutin , Mark Jones , Philip R. Neary , Anders Yeo

We consider a repeated Matching Pennies game in which players have limited access to randomness. Playing the (unique) Nash equilibrium in this n-stage game requires n random bits. Can there be Nash equilibria that use less than n random…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-30 Michele Budinich , Lance Fortnow

A variety of social, economic, and political interactions have long been modelled after Blotto games. In this paper, we introduce a general model of dynamic $n$-player Blotto contests. The players have asymmetric resources, and the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-07-27 Nejat Anbarcı , Kutay Cingiz , Mehmet S. Ismail

A \emph{bidding} game is played on a graph as follows. A token is placed on an initial vertex and both players are allocated budgets. In each turn, the players simultaneously submit bids that do not exceed their available budgets, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Guy Avni , Suman Sadhukhan

In this paper, we consider the problem of generating fair randomness in a deterministic, multi-agent context (for instance, a decentralised game built on a blockchain). The existing state-of-the-art approaches are either susceptible to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Daniel Kraft

We study stable matching problems in networks where players are embedded in a social context, and may incorporate friendship relations or altruism into their decisions. Each player is a node in a social network and strives to form a good…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-27 Elliot Anshelevich , Onkar Bhardwaj , Martin Hoefer

We study two-player concurrent stochastic games on finite graphs, with B\"uchi and co-B\"uchi objectives. The goal of the first player is to maximize the probability of satisfying the given objective. Following Martin's determinacy theorem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Benjamin Bordais , Patricia Bouyer , Stéphane Le Roux

Animal behavior and evolution can often be described by game-theoretic models. Although in many situations, the number of players is very large, their strategic interactions are usually decomposed into a sum of two-player games. Only…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Dominik Kaminski , Jacek Miekisz , Marcin Zaborowski

According to the proportional allocation mechanism from the network optimization literature, users compete for a divisible resource -- such as bandwidth -- by submitting bids. The mechanism allocates to each user a fraction of the resource…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Ioannis Caragiannis , Alexandros A. Voudouris

In this paper we consider positional games where the winning sets are tree universal graphs. Specifically, we show that in the unbiased Maker-Breaker game on the complete graph $K_n$, Maker has a strategy to occupy a graph which contains…

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

Coordination games admit two types of equilibria: pure equilibria, where all players successfully coordinate their actions, and mixed equilibria, where players frequently experience miscoordination. The existing literature shows that under…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-01-28 Srinivas Arigapudi , Yuval Heller , Amnon Schreiber

Probabilistic game structures combine both nondeterminism and stochasticity, where players repeatedly take actions simultaneously to move to the next state of the concurrent game. Probabilistic alternating simulation is an important tool to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Chenyi Zhang , Jun Pang

We consider a sequence of transferable utility (TU) games where, at each time, the characteristic function is a random vector with realizations restricted to some set of values. The game differs from other ones in the literature on dynamic,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-25 Dario Bauso , Angelia Nedić