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This paper studies the finite-time horizon Markov games where the agents' dynamics are decoupled but the rewards can possibly be coupled across agents. The policy class is restricted to local policies where agents make decisions using their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Runyu Zhang , Yuyang Zhang , Rohit Konda , Bryce Ferguson , Jason Marden , Na Li

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 consider multi-player games played on graphs, in which the players aim at fulfilling their own (not necessarily antagonistic) objectives. In the spirit of evolutionary game theory, we suppose that the players have the right to repeatedly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Thomas Brihaye , Gilles Geeraerts , Marion Hallet , Benjamin Monmege , Bruno Quoitin

Expanding the ideas of the author's paper 'Nonexpansive maps and option pricing theory' (Kibernetica 34:6 (1998), 713-724) we develop a pure game-theoretic approach to option pricing, by-passing stochastic modeling. Risk neutral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Vassili Kolokoltsov

We establish a theoretical framework to address evolutionary dynamics of spatial games under strong selection. As the selection intensity tends to infinity, strategy competition unfolds in the deterministic way of winners taking all. We…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-20 Te Wu , Feng Fu , Long Wang

Coalition formation is often modeled as a static equilibrium problem, neglecting the dynamic processes governing how agents self-organize. This paper proposes a dynamic split-and-merge framework that balances two conflicting economic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Quanyan Zhu , Zhengye Han

Mean field games formalize dynamic games with a continuum of players and explicit interaction where the players can have heterogeneous states. As they additionally yield approximate equilibria of corresponding $N$-player games, they are of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Berenice Anne Neumann

We consider finite-horizon and infinite-horizon versions of a dynamic game with $N$ selfish players who observe their types privately and take actions that are publicly observed. Players' types evolve as conditionally independent Markov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Deepanshu Vasal , Abhinav Sinha , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

We study a system of self-propelled, proliferating finite-size disks with game-theoretical interactions, where growth rates depend on local population composition. We analyze how these interactions influence spatial distribution,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Alejandro Almodóvar , Tobias Galla , Cristóbal López

We consider an autonomous navigation problem, whereby a traveler aims at traversing an environment in which an adversary tries to set an ambush. A two players zero sum game is introduced. Players' strategies are computed as random path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Emmanuel Boidot , Aude Marzuoli , Eric Feron

We discuss analytical results for a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in one dimension in presence of boundary reservoirs. It exhibits `kinetic boundary layers', nonmonotonous distribution, current without density gradient, diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-14 Pritha Dolai , Arghya Das

In this paper we study stochastic dynamic games with many players; these are a fundamental model for a wide range of economic applications. The standard solution concept for such games is Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE), but it is well…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Sachin Adlakha , Ramesh Johari , Gabriel Y. Weintraub

This paper studies a model for the optimal control (by a centralized economic agent which we call the planner) of pollution diffusion over time and space. The controls are the investments in production and depollution and the goal is to…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-09 Fausto Gozzi , Marta Leocata , Giulia Pucci

Collective actions, from city marathons to labor strikes, are often mass-driven and subject to the snowball effect. Motivated by this, we study evolutionary advantages of conditional punishment in the spatial public goods game. Unlike…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-03-19 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

We study the problem of characterizing the set of games that are consistent with observed equilibrium play. Our contribution is to develop and analyze a new methodology based on convex optimization to address this problem for many classes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Juba Ziani , Venkat Chandrasekaran , Katrina Ligett

Historically, traffic modelling approaches have taken either a particle-like (microscopic) approach, or a gas-like (meso- or macroscopic) approach. Until recently with the introduction of mean-field games to the controls community, there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Amoolya Tirumalai , John S. Baras

We characterize the optimal control for a class of singular stochastic control problems as the unique solution to a related Skorokhod reflection problem. The considered optimization problems concern the minimization of a discounted cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Jodi Dianetti , Giorgio Ferrari

We develop a game-theoretic framework for adversarially robust optimal safe predefined-time stabilization of parameter-dependent nonlinear dynamical systems with nonquadratic cost functionals. Our approach ensures that all system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Nick-Marios T. Kokolakis , Shanqing Liu , Jerome Darbon , Rahul Mangharam , George Em Karniadakis

We introduce a class of fully nonlinear mean field games posed in $[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}^d$. We justify that they are related to controlled local or nonlocal diffusions, and more generally in our setting, to a new control interpretation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Indranil Chowdhury , Espen R. Jakobsen , Miłosz Krupski

Artificial ecosystems provide an additional experimental tool to support laboratory work, field work, and theoretical development in competitive exclusion research. A novel application of a spatiotemporal agent based model is presented…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-01 John C. Stevenson