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Locational marginal pricing (LMP) is a widely employed method for pricing electricity in the wholesale electricity market. Although it is well known that the LMP mechanism is vulnerable to market manipulation, there is little literature…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Wenyuan Tang , Rahul Jain

Auto-bidding has become a cornerstone of modern online advertising platforms, enabling many advertisers to automate bidding at scale and optimize campaign performance. However, prevailing industrial systems rely on single-agent auto-bidding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhiyu Mou , Miao Xu , Rongquan Bai , Zhuoran Yang , Chuan Yu , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

While auction theory views bids and valuations as continuous variables, real-world auctions are necessarily discrete. In this paper, we use a combination of analytical and computational methods to investigate whether incorporating…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-08-17 Itzhak Rasooly , Carlos Gavidia-Calderon

In this paper we describe an argumentation-based representation of normal form games, and demonstrate how argumentation can be used to compute pure strategy Nash equilibria. Our approach builds on Modgil's Extended Argumentation Frameworks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Bruno Yun , Srdjan Vesic , Nir Oren

We consider repeated multi-unit auctions with uniform pricing, which are widely used in practice for allocating goods such as carbon licenses. In each round, $K$ identical units of a good are sold to a group of buyers that have valuations…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Simina Brânzei , Mahsa Derakhshan , Negin Golrezaei , Yanjun Han

We consider a price competition between two sellers of perfect-complement goods. Each seller posts a price for the good it sells, but the demand is determined according to the sum of prices. This is a classic model by Cournot (1838), who…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Moshe Babaioff , Liad Blumrosen , Noam Nisan

We propose a solution and a mechanism for two-agent social choice problems with large (infinite) policy spaces. Our solution is an efficient compromise rule between the two agents, built on a common cardinalization of their preferences. Our…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-03 Federico Echenique , Matías Núñez

The presence of uncertainties in the ride-hailing market complicates the pricing strategies of on-demand platforms that compete each other to offer a mobility service while striving to maximize their profit. Looking at this problem as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Filippo Fabiani , Barbara Franci

We study equilibrium concepts in non-cooperative games under uncertainty where both beliefs and mixed strategies are represented by non-additive measures (capacities). In contrast to the classical Nash framework based on additive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Taras Radul

Nash equilibrium serves as a fundamental mathematical tool in economics and game theory. However, it classically assumes knowledge of player utilities, whereas economics generally regards preferences as more fundamental. To leverage…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ian Gemp , Crystal Qian , Marc Lanctot , Kate Larson

The progressive second-price auction of Lazar and Semret is a decentralized mechanism for the allocation and real-time pricing of a divisible resource. Our focus is on how delays in the receipt of bid messages, asynchronous analysis by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jordana Blazek , Eric Olson , Fredrick C. Harris

This paper studies Nash equilibrium problems that are given by polynomial functions. We formulate efficient polynomial optimization problems for computing Nash equilibria. The Lasserre type Moment-SOS relaxations are used to solve them.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Jiawang Nie , Xindong Tang

We suggest a novel stochastic-approximation algorithm to compute a symmetric Nash-equilibrium strategy in a general queueing game with a finite action space. The algorithm involves a single simulation of the queueing process with dynamic…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Liron Ravner , Ran I. Snitkovsky

In non-truthful auctions such as first-price and all-pay auctions, the independent strategic behaviors of bidders, with the corresponding Bayes-Nash equilibrium notion, are notoriously difficult to characterize and can cause undesirable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hu Fu , Tao Lin

The Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction is the primary auction used for monetizing the use of the Internet. It is well-known that truthtelling is not a dominant strategy in this auction and that inefficient equilibria can arise. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Ioannis Caragiannis , Christos Kaklamanis , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Maria Kyropoulou , Brendan Lucier , Renato Paes Leme , Éva Tardos

Sequential auctions for identical items with unit-demand, private-value buyers are common and often occur periodically without end, as new bidders replace departing ones. We model bidder uncertainty by introducing a probability that a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Amir Ban

Notifications are important for the user experience in mobile apps and can influence their engagement. However, too many notifications can be disruptive for users. A typical mobile app usually has several types of notification, managed by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Christian Kroer , Deeksha Sinha , Xuan Zhang , Shiwen Cheng , Ziyu Zhou

Within a common arbitrage-free semimartingale financial market we consider the problem of determining all Nash equilibrium investment strategies for $n$ agents who try to maximize the expected utility of their relative wealth. The utility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Nicole Bäuerle , Tamara Göll

This letter reports a novel application of game theory to quantum informational processes which can be used to optimally classify data generated by these processes. To this end, the notion of simultaneously distinguishing a pure quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Faisal Shah Khan

In this paper we introduce a capacity allocation game which models the problem of maximizing network utility from the perspective of distributed noncooperative agents. Motivated by the idea of self-managed networks, in the developed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Dariusz Gcasior , Maciej Drwal