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The problem of the distributed Nash equilibrium seeking for aggregative games has been studied over strongly connected and weight-balanced static networks and every time strongly connected and weight-balanced switching networks. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Zhaocong Liu , Jie Huang

This paper investigates the decentralized provision of public goods in directed networks. We establish a correspondence between kernels in graph theory and specialized equilibria in which players either contribute a fixed threshold amount…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-30 Jingmin Huang , Yang Sun , Fanqi Xu , Wei Zhao

We study the computational complexity of Nash equilibria in concurrent games with limit-average objectives. In particular, we prove that the existence of a Nash equilibrium in randomised strategies is undecidable, while the existence of a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-29 Michael Ummels , Dominik Wojtczak

Recently Bramoulle and Kranton presented a model for the provision of public goods over a network and showed the existence of a class of Nash equilibria called specialized equilibria wherein some agents exert maximum effort while other…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Parthe Pandit , Ankur A. Kulkarni

Congestion games offer a primary model in the study of pure Nash equilibria in non-cooperative games, and a number of generalized models have been proposed in the literature. One line of generalization includes weighted congestion games, in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Kenjiro Takazawa

Correlated equilibria -- and their generalization $\Phi$-equilibria -- are a fundamental object of study in game theory, offering a more tractable alternative to Nash equilibria in multi-player settings. While computational aspects of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Gabriele Farina

We consider generalized Nash equilibrium problems (GNEPs) with linear coupling constraints affected by both local (i.e., agent-wise) and global (i.e., shared resources) disturbances taking values in polyhedral uncertainty sets. By making…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Marta Fochesato , Filippo Fabiani , John Lygeros

Consider an undirected graph modeling a social network, where the vertices represent users, and the edges do connections among them. In the competitive diffusion game, each of a number of players chooses a vertex as a seed to propagate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Takehiro Ito , Yota Otachi , Toshiki Saitoh , Hisayuki Satoh , Akira Suzuki , Kei Uchizawa , Ryuhei Uehara , Katsuhisa Yamanaka , Xiao Zhou

In the classical Binary Networked Public Goods (BNPG) game, a player can either invest in a public project or decide not to invest. Based on the decisions of all the players, each player receives a reward as per his/her utility function.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Arnab Maiti , Palash Dey

This paper examines public goods and evaluates the mechanism through the game theory. Public goods are characterized by nonexclusivity and nonrivalry and this creates fundamental challenges for allocation. We analyze why competitive markets…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-20 Yash Prajapati

We study the problem of computing stationary Nash equilibria in discounted perfect information stochastic games from the viewpoint of computational complexity. For two-player games we prove the problem to be in PPAD, which together with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Xinhao Nie

We introduce a new class of games called the networked common goods game (NCGG), which generalizes the well-known common goods game. We focus on a fairly general subclass of the game where each agent's utility functions are the same across…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Jinsong Tan

In this paper, the problem of finding a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) of a networked game is studied. Players are only able to choose their decisions from a feasible action set. The feasible set is considered to be a private linear…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Farzad Salehisadaghiani , Lacra Pavel

Motivated by the fact that in many game-theoretic settings, the game analyzed is only an approximation to the game being played, in this work we analyze equilibrium computation for the broad and natural class of bimatrix games that are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Maria-Florina Balcan , Mark Braverman

We know that the Nash equilibria of a game cannot be computed efficiently unless $P = PPAD$. But can they be learned? Are there dynamics that (1) can be computed efficiently by the players at each strategy profile and (2) are guaranteed to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Oliver Biggar , Christos Papadimitriou , Georgios Piliouras

We analyse the computational complexity of finding Nash equilibria in simple stochastic multiplayer games. We show that restricting the search space to equilibria whose payoffs fall into a certain interval may lead to undecidability. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Michael Ummels , Dominik Wojtczak

One of the natural objectives of the field of the social networks is to predict agents' behaviour. To better understand the spread of various products through a social network arXiv:1105.2434 introduced a threshold model, in which the nodes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Sunil Simon , Krzysztof R. Apt

We investigate complexity issues related to pure Nash equilibria of strategic games. We show that, even in very restrictive settings, determining whether a game has a pure Nash Equilibrium is NP-hard, while deciding whether a game has a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-19 G. Gottlob , G. Greco , F. Scarcello

Many models from a variety of areas involve the computation of an equilibrium or fixed point of some kind. Examples include Nash equilibria in games; market equilibria; computing optimal strategies and the values of competitive games…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Mihalis Yannakakis

We design a distributed algorithm to seek generalized Nash equilibria of a robust game with uncertain coupled constraints. Due to the uncertainty of parameters in set constraints, we aim to find a generalized Nash equilibrium in the worst…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Gehui Xu , Guanpu Chen , Hongsheng Qi