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Classical objectives in two-player zero-sum games played on graphs often deal with limit behaviors of infinite plays: e.g., mean-payoff and total-payoff in the quantitative setting, or parity in the qualitative one (a canonical way to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Mickael Randour

In Stackelberg v/s Stackelberg games a collection of leaders compete in a Nash game constrained by the equilibrium conditions of another Nash game amongst the followers. The resulting equilibrium problems are plagued by the nonuniqueness of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Ankur A. Kulkarni , Uday V. Shanbhag

In this paper, we study games with continuous action spaces and non-linear payoff functions. Our key insight is that Lipschitz continuity of the payoff function allows us to provide algorithms for finding approximate equilibria in these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Paul Spirakis

In this paper, we study a generalization of Markov games and pseudo-games that we call Markov pseudo-games, which, like the former, captures time and uncertainty, and like the latter, allows for the players' actions to determine the set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Denizalp Goktas , Sadie Zhao , Yiling Chen , Amy Greenwald

The assumptions of necessary rationality and necessary knowledge of strategies, also known as perfect prediction, lead to at most one surviving outcome, immune to the knowledge that the players have of them. Solutions concepts implementing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Ghislain Fourny

Concurrent multi-player mean-payoff games are important models for systems of agents with individual, non-dichotomous preferences. Whilst these games have been extensively studied in terms of their equilibria in non-cooperative settings,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Julian Gutierrez , Anthony W. Lin , Muhammad Najib , Thomas Steeples , Michael Wooldridge

We study pricing and superhedging strategies for game options in an imperfect market with default. We extend the results obtained by Kifer in \cite{Kifer} in the case of a perfect market model to the case of an imperfect market with…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-07-04 Roxana Dumitrescu , Marie-Claire Quenez , Agnès Sulem

We introduce a class of Bayesian bidding games for which we prove that the set of pure Nash equilibria is a (non-empty) sublattice and we give a sufficient condition for uniqueness that is often verified in the context of markets with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Benjamin Heymann , Alejandro Jofré

We study multi-strategies in multiplayer reachability games played on finite graphs. A multi-strategy prescribes a set of possible actions, instead of a single action as usual strategies: it represents a set of all strategies that are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Aline Goeminne , Benjamin Monmege

Mean-payoff games are important quantitative models for open reactive systems. They have been widely studied as games of full observation. In this paper we investigate the algorithmic properties of several sub-classes of mean-payoff games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Paul Hunter , Arno Pauly , Guillermo A. Pérez , Jean-François Raskin

We propose a novel algorithm for the solution of mean-payoff games that merges together two seemingly unrelated concepts introduced in the context of parity games, small progress measures and quasi dominions. We show that the integration of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Massimo Benerecetti , Daniele Dell'Erba , Fabio Mogavero

This paper considers mean field games in a multi-agent Markov decision process (MDP) framework. Each player has a continuum state and binary action, and benefits from the improvement of the condition of the overall population. Based on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Minyi Huang , Yan Ma

In this article, we consider mean field games between a dominating player and a group of representative agents, each of which acts similarly and also interacts with each other through a mean field term being substantially influenced by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-28 Alain Bensoussan , Michael Chau , Phillip Yam

We propose a generic mechanism for incentivizing behavior in an arbitrary finite game using payments. Doing so is trivial if the mechanism is allowed to observe all actions taken in the game, as this allows it to simply punish those agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach

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

In this paper, we introduce the concept of infinitely split Nash equilibrium in repeated games in which the profile sets are chain-complete posets. Then by using a fixed point theorem on posets in [8], we prove an existence theorem. As an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Jinlu Li

We study graphs and two-player games in which rewards are assigned to states, and the goal of the players is to satisfy or dissatisfy certain property of the generated outcome, given as a mean payoff property. Since the notion of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Tomáš Brázdil , Vojtěch Forejt , Antonín Kučera , Petr Novotný

Stochastic games are an important class of problems that generalize Markov decision processes to game theoretic scenarios. We consider finite state two-player zero-sum stochastic games over an infinite time horizon with discounted rewards.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Parikshit Shah , Pablo A. Parrilo

While discounted payoff games and classic games that reduce to them, like parity and mean-payoff games, are symmetric, their solutions are not. We have taken a fresh view on the constraints that optimal solutions need to satisfy, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Daniele Dell'Erba , Arthur Dumas , Sven Schewe

Meirowitz [17] showed existence of continuous behavioural function equilibria for Bayesian games with non-finite type and action spaces. A key condition for the proof of the existence result is equi-continuity of behavioural functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Shaoyan Guo , Huifu Xu , Liwei Zhang