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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…

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We consider a game for a continuum of non-identical players evolving on a finite state space. Their heterogeneous interactions are represented by a graphon, which can be viewed as the limit of a dense random graph. The player's transition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Alexander Aurell , Rene Carmona , Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere

This paper studies the connection between a class of mean-field games and a social welfare optimization problem. We consider a mean-field game in function spaces with a large population of agents, and each agent seeks to minimize an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Sen Li , Wei Zhang , Lin Zhao

In this paper we study resource allocation in decentralized information local public good networks. A network is a local public good network if each user's actions directly affect the utility of an arbitrary subset of network users. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Shrutivandana Sharma , Demosthenis Teneketzis

Today's multiagent systems have grown too complex to rely on centralized controllers, prompting increasing interest in the design of distributed algorithms. In this respect, game theory has emerged as a valuable tool to complement more…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Rahul Chandan , Dario Paccagnan , Jason R. Marden

We are concerned with finding Nash Equilibria in agent-based multi-cluster games, where agents are separated into distinct clusters. While the agents inside each cluster collaborate to achieve a common goal, the clusters are considered to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Jan Zimmermann , Tatiana Tatarenko , Volker Willert , Jürgen Adamy

The aim of this paper is to formulate and study a stochastic model for the management of environmental assets in a geographical context where in each place the local authorities take their policy decisions maximizing their own welfare,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron , Daria Ghilli , Fausto Gozzi , Marta Leocata

We investigate infection-curing games on a network epidemics model based on the classical Polya urn scheme that accounts for spatial contagion among neighbouring nodes. We first consider the zero-sum game between competing agents using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Greg Harrington , Fady Alajaji , Bahman Gharesifard

In this paper, we study a class of discrete-time mean-field games under the infinite-horizon risk-sensitive discounted-cost optimality criterion. Risk-sensitivity is introduced for each agent (player) via an exponential utility function. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Naci Saldi , Tamer Basar , Maxim Raginsky

This paper considers a game-theoretic framework for distributed machine learning problems over networks where the information acquisition at a node is modeled as a rational choice of a player. In the proposed game, players decide both the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Shutian Liu , Tao Li , Quanyan Zhu

Decentralized online learning for seeking generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) of noncooperative games in dynamic environments is studied in this paper. Each player aims at selfishly minimizing its own time-varying cost function subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Min Meng , Xiuxian Li , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen , Long Wang

In cost sharing games, the existence and efficiency of pure Nash equilibria fundamentally depends on the method that is used to share the resources' costs. We consider a general class of resource allocation problems in which a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Max Klimm , Daniel Schmand

This paper proposes a novel approach for locally stable convergence to Nash equilibrium in duopoly noncooperative games based on a distributed event-triggered control scheme. The proposed approach employs extremum seeking, with sinusoidal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Victor Hugo Pereira Rodrigues , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstić , Tamer Başar

This paper investigates the efficiency loss in social cost caused by strategic bidding behavior of individual participants in a supply-demand balancing market, and proposes a mechanism to fully recover equilibrium social optimum via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Kaiying Lin , Beibei Wang , Pengcheng You

A central goal in algorithmic game theory is to analyze the performance of decentralized multiagent systems, like communication and information networks. In the absence of a central planner who can enforce how these systems are utilized,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Vasilis Gkatzelis , Kostas Kollias , Alkmini Sgouritsa , Xizhi Tan

This work studies the decentralized and uncoordinated energy source selection problem for smart-grid consumers with heterogeneous energy profiles and risk attitudes: they compete for a limited amount of renewable energy in their local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Eleni Stai , Evangelia Kokolaki , Lesia Mitridati , Petros Tatoulis , Ioannis Stavrakakis , Gabriela Hug

In this study, we present models where participants strategically select their risk levels and earn corresponding rewards, mirroring real-world competition across various sectors. Our analysis starts with a normal form game involving two…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-05-31 Louis Abraham

This work proposes a novel distributed approach for computing a Nash equilibrium in convex games with restricted strongly monotone pseudo-gradients. By leveraging the idea of the centralized operator extrapolation method presented in [4] to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Tatiana Tatarenko , Angelia Nedich

We propose a real-time nodal pricing mechanism for cost minimization and voltage control in a distribution network with autonomous distributed energy resources and analyze the resulting market using stochastic game theory. Unlike existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Eli Brock , Jingqi Li , Javad Lavaei , Somayeh Sojoudi

In this paper, we study the distributed generalized Nash equilibrium seeking problem of non-cooperative games in dynamic environments. Each player in the game aims to minimize its own time-varying cost function subject to a local action…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Kaihong Lu , Guangqi Li , Long Wang