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In multicast network design games, a set of agents choose paths from their source locations to a common sink with the goal of minimizing their individual costs, where the cost of an edge is divided equally among the agents using it. Since…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Rupert Freeman , Samuel Haney , Debmalya Panigrahi

Combinatorial Game Theory is a branch of mathematics and theoretical computer science that studies sequential 2-player games with perfect information. Normal play is the convention where a player who cannot move loses. Here, we generalize…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Prem Kant , Urban Larsson , Ravi K. Rai , Akshay V. Upasany

We consider two-player games over finite graphs in which both players are restricted by fairness constraints on their moves. Given a two player game graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set of fair moves $E_f\subseteq E$ a player is said to play "fair" in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Daniel Hausmann , Nir Piterman , Irmak Sağlam , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

In this paper, we continue the study of the total domination game in graphs introduced in [Graphs Combin. 31(5) (2015), 1453--1462], where the players Dominator and Staller alternately select vertices of $G$. Each vertex chosen must…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Michael A. Henning , Douglas F. Rall

Turn-based discounted-sum games are two-player zero-sum games played on finite directed graphs. The vertices of the graph are partitioned between player 1 and player 2. Plays are infinite walks on the graph where the next vertex is decided…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ali Asadi , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Raimundo Saona , Jakub Svoboda

This paper studies a 2-players zero-sum Dynkin game arising from pricing an option on an asset whose rate of return is unknown to both players. Using filtering techniques we first reduce the problem to a zero-sum Dynkin game on a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Tiziano De Angelis , Fabien Gensbittel , Stéphane Villeneuve

Bidding chess is a chess variant where instead of alternating play, players bid for the opportunity to move. Generalizing a known result on so-called Richman games, we show that for a natural class of games including bidding chess, each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Urban Larsson , Johan Wästlund

A double auction game with an infinite number of buyers and sellers is introduced. All sellers posses one unit of a good, all buyers desire to buy one unit. Each seller and each buyer has a private valuation of the good. The distribution of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Matthijs Ruijgrok

Escalation is a typical feature of infinite games. Therefore tools conceived for studying infinite mathematical structures, namely those deriving from coinduction are essential. Here we use coinduction, or backward coinduction (to show its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-30 Pierre Lescanne , Perrinel Matthieu

Escalation is a typical feature of infinite games. Therefore tools conceived for studying infinite mathematical structures, namely those deriving from coinduction are essential. Here we use coinduction, or backward coinduction (to show its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-16 Pierre Lescanne , Perrinel Matthieu

We examine two-player games over finite weighted graphs with quantitative (mean-payoff or energy) objective, where one of the players additionally needs to satisfy a fairness objective. The specific fairness we consider is called 'strong…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ashwani Anand , Satya Prakash Nayak , Ritam Raha , Irmak Sağlam , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

All-pay auctions, a common mechanism for various human and agent interactions, suffers, like many other mechanisms, from the possibility of players' failure to participate in the auction. We model such failures, and fully characterize…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Yoad Lewenberg , Omer Lev , Yoram Bachrach , Jeffrey S. Rosenschein

We propose a class of two person perfect information games based on weighted graphs. One of these games can be described in terms of a round pizza which is cut radially into pieces of varying size. The two players alternately take pieces…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-12 Daniel E. Brown , Lawrence G. Brown

Simple stochastic games are turn-based 2.5-player zero-sum graph games with a reachability objective. The problem is to compute the winning probability as well as the optimal strategies of both players. In this paper, we compare the three…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Jan Kretinsky , Emanuel Ramneantu , Alexander Slivinskiy , Maximilian Weininger

This work considers two-player zero-sum semi-Markov games with incomplete information on one side and perfect observation. At the beginning, the system selects a game type according to a given probability distribution and informs to Player…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Fang Chen , Xianping Guo , Zhong-Wei Liao

The paper proposes a natural measure space of zero-sum perfect information games with upper semicontinuous payoffs. Each game is specified by the game tree, and by the assignment of the active player and of the capacity to each node of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-22 János Flesch , Arkadi Predtetchinski , Ville Suomala

We study zero-sum games, a variant of the classical combinatorial Subtraction games (studied for example in the monumental work "Winning Ways", by Berlekamp, Conway and Guy), called Cumulative Subtraction (CS). Two players alternate in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Gal Cohensius , Urban Larsson , Reshef Meir , David Wahlstedt

Graph games provide the foundation for modeling and synthesis of reactive processes. Such games are played over graphs where the vertices are controlled by two adversarial players. We consider graph games where the objective of the first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Monika Henzinger , Alexander Svozil

In this paper, we study one-player and two-player energy mean-payoff games. Energy mean-payoff games are games of infinite duration played on a finite graph with edges labeled by 2-dimensional weight vectors. The objective of the first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Mickael Randour , Jean-François Raskin

We study two-player zero-sum games over infinite-state graphs with boundedness conditions. Our first contribution is about the strategy complexity, i.e the memory required for winning strategies: we prove that over general infinite-state…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Nathanaël Fijalkow