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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Shu Liang , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong

We present polynomial-time algorithms as well as hardness results for equilibrium computation in atomic splittable routing games, for the case of general convex cost functions. These games model traffic in freight transportation, market…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Umang Bhaskar , Phani Raj Lolakapuri

This paper studies the monotonicity of equilibrium costs and equilibrium loads in nonatomic congestion games, in response to variations of the demands. The main goal is to identify conditions under which a paradoxical non-monotone behavior…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Roberto Cominetti , Valerio Dose , Marco Scarsini

We study the problem of computing an $\epsilon$-Nash equilibrium in repeated games. Earlier work by Borgs et al. [2010] suggests that this problem is intractable. We show that if we make a slight change to their model---modeling the players…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Joseph Y. Halpern , Rafael Pass , Lior Seeman

We study a dynamic routing game motivated by traffic flows. The base model for an edge is the Vickrey bottleneck model. That is, edges are equipped with a free flow transit time and a capacity. When the inflow into an edge exceeds its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shaul Rosner , Marc Schröder , Laura Vargas Koch

We consider non-atomic network congestion games with heterogeneous players where the latencies of the paths are subject to some bounded deviations. This model encompasses several well-studied extensions of the classical Wardrop model which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Pieter Kleer , Guido Schäfer

A fundamental open problem in monotone game theory is the computation of a specific generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) among all the available ones, e.g. the optimal equilibrium with respect to a system-level objective. The existing GNE…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Emilio Benenati , Wicak Ananduta , Sergio Grammatico

We study a network congestion game of discrete-time dynamic traffic of atomic agents with a single origin-destination pair. Any agent freely makes a dynamic decision at each vertex (e.g., road crossing) and traffic is regulated with given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Zhigang Cao , Bo Chen , Xujin Chen , Changjun Wang

The dense deployment of small-cell base stations in HetSNets requires efficient resource allocation techniques. More precisely, the problem of associating users to SBSs must be revised and carefully studied. This problem is NP-hard and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Zoubeir Mlika , Elmahdi Driouch , Wessam Ajib , Halima Elbiaze

We extend the study of the complexity of finding an $\eps$-approximate Nash equilibrium in congestion games from the case of positive delay functions to delays of arbitrary sign. We first prove that in symmetric games with $\alpha$-bounded…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-08 Frederic Magniez , Michel de Rougemont , Miklos Santha , Xavier Zeitoun

We consider two classes of constrained finite state-action stochastic games. First, we consider a two player nonzero sum single controller constrained stochastic game with both average and discounted cost criterion. We consider the same…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Vikas Vikram Singh , N. Hemachandra

An atomic routing game is a multiplayer game on a directed graph. Each player in the game chooses a path -- a sequence of links that connect its origin node to its destination node -- with the lowest cost, where the cost of each link is a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Yue Yu , Shenghui Chen , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

We investigate a new class of congestion games, called Totally Unimodular (TU) Congestion Games, where the players' strategies are binary vectors inside polyhedra defined by totally unimodular constraint matrices. Network congestion games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Alberto Del Pia , Michael Ferris , Carla Michini

We study {\em bottleneck congestion games} where the social cost is determined by the worst congestion of any resource. These games directly relate to network routing problems and also job-shop scheduling problems. In typical bottleneck…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-26 Rajgopal Kannan , Costas Busch , Athanasios Vasilakos

Aggregative games have many industrial applications, and computing an equilibrium in those games is challenging when the number of players is large. In the framework of atomic aggregative games with coupling constraints, we show that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Paulin Jacquot , Cheng Wan , Olivier Beaude , Nadia Oudjane

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

Zero-sum games arise in a wide variety of problems, including robust optimization and adversarial learning. However, algorithms deployed for finding a local Nash equilibrium in these games often converge to non-Nash stationary points. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kushagra Gupta , Xinjie Liu , Ross Allen , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

We describe a new coordination mechanism for non-atomic congestion games that leads to a (selfish) social cost which is arbitrarily close to the non-selfish optimal. This mechanism does not incur any additional extra cost, like tolls, which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Josep Díaz , Ioannis Giotis , Lefteris Kirousis , Yiannis Mourtos , Maria J. Serna

In competitive multi-player interactions, simultaneous optimality is a key requirement for establishing strategic equilibria. This property is explicit when the game-theoretic equilibrium is the simultaneously optimal solution of coupled…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Sarah H. Q. Li , Yue Yu , Florian Dörfler , John Lygeros

Congestion games constitute an important class of games to model resource allocation by different users. As computing an exact or even an approximate pure Nash equilibrium is in general PLS-complete, Caragiannis et al. (2011) present a…

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