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The distributed computation of Nash equilibria is assuming growing relevance in engineering where such problems emerge in the context of distributed control. Accordingly, we present schemes for computing equilibria of two classes of static…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Hao Jiang , Uday V. Shanbhag , Sean P. Meyn

We study automated intrusion response for an IT infrastructure and formulate the interaction between an attacker and a defender as a partially observed stochastic game. To solve the game we follow an approach where attack and defense…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Kim Hammar , Rolf Stadler

This paper addresses the problem of locating base stations in a certain area which is highly populated by mobile stations; each mobile station is assumed to select the closest base station. Base stations are modeled by players who choose…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-12 François Mériaux , Samson Lasaulce , Michel Kieffer

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

With a large number of sensors and control units in networked systems, distributed support vector machines (DSVMs) play a fundamental role in scalable and efficient multi-sensor classification and prediction tasks. However, DSVMs are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-16 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

Motivated by the complex dynamics of cooperative and competitive interactions within networked agent systems, multi-cluster games provide a framework for modeling the interconnected goals of self-interested clusters of agents. For this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Mattia Bianchi , Florian Dörfler , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedić

We introduce a game of trusted computation in which a sensor equipped with limited computing power leverages a central node to evaluate a specified function over a large dataset, collected over time. We assume that the central computer can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Shaunak D. Bopardikar , Alberto Speranzon , Cedric Langbort

We consider a system consisting of multiple interdependent assets, and a set of defenders, each responsible for securing a subset of the assets against an attacker. The interdependencies between the assets are captured by an attack graph,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Mustafa Abdallah , Parinaz Naghizadeh , Ashish R. Hota , Timothy Cason , Saurabh Bagchi , Shreyas Sundaram

Claude Shannon's zero-error communication paradigm reshaped our understanding of fault-tolerant information transfer. Here, we adapt this notion into game theory with incomplete information. We ask: can players with private information…

To facilitate effective, safe deployment in the real world, individual robots must reason about interactions with other agents, which often occur without explicit communication. Recent work has identified game theory, particularly the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Avishav Engle , Andrey Zhitnikov , Oren Salzman , Omer Ben-Porat , Kiril Solovey

We study a distributed approach for seeking a Nash equilibrium in $n$-cluster games with strictly monotone mappings. Each player within each cluster has access to the current value of her own smooth local cost function estimated by a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Tatiana Tatarenko , Jan Zimmermann , Jürgen Adamy

We address the generalized Nash equilibrium seeking problem for a population of agents playing aggregative games with affine coupling constraints. We focus on semi-decentralized communication architectures, where there is a central…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Giuseppe Belgioioso , Sergio Grammatico

In this paper we consider a stochastic game for modelling the interactions between smugglers and a patroller along a border. The problem we examine involves a group of cooperating smugglers making regular attempts to bring small amounts of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Matthew Darlington , Kevin D. Glazebrook , David S. Leslie , Rob Shone , Roberto Szechtman

Games with incomplete preferences are an important model for studying rational decision-making in scenarios where players face incomplete information about their preferences and must contend with incomparable outcomes. We study the problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

Strategic interactions can be represented more concisely, and analyzed and solved more efficiently, if we are aware of the symmetries within the multiagent system. Symmetries also have conceptual implications, for example for equilibrium…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Emanuel Tewolde , Brian Hu Zhang , Caspar Oesterheld , Tuomas Sandholm , Vincent Conitzer

This paper investigates a distributed robust Nash Equilibrium (NE) seeking problem for second-order players subject to external disturbances and uncertain dynamics while communicating via semi-Markov switching topologies. To accommodate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Jianing Chen , Sitian Qin , Chuangyin Dang

We study the problem of computing an approximate Nash equilibrium of continuous-action game without access to gradients. Such game access is common in reinforcement learning settings, where the environment is typically treated as a black…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Carlos Martin , Tuomas Sandholm

The new generation of botnets leverages Artificial Intelligent (AI) techniques to conceal the identity of botmasters and the attack intention to avoid detection. Unfortunately, there has not been an existing assessment tool capable of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Hooman Alavizadeh , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Tansu Alpcan , Seyit A. Camtepe

The paper introduces a class of zero-sum games between the adversary and controller as a scenario for a `denial of service' in a networked control system. The communication link is modeled as a set of transmission regimes controlled by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-07 V. Ugrinovskii , C. Langbort

Traditional game-theoretic research for security applications primarily focuses on the allocation of external protection resources to defend targets. This work puts forward the study of a new class of games centered around strategically…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Niclas Boehmer , Minbiao Han , Haifeng Xu , Milind Tambe