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Population-based evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely applied to solve various optimization problems. The question of how the performance of a population-based EA depends on the population size arises naturally. The performance of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Jun He , Tianshi Chen , Boris Mitavskiy

Evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations provides a new framework to understand the selection of traits with frequency-dependent fitness. Recently, a simple but fundamental law of evolutionary dynamics, which we call {\sigma} law,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-04-19 Changbing Tang , Xiang Li , Lang Cao , Jingyuan Zhan

Game theory provides a general mathematical background to study the effect of pair interactions and evolutionary rules on the macroscopic behavior of multi-player games where players with a finite number of strategies may represent a wide…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-20 Gyorgy Szabo , Istvan Borsos

This paper addresses a class of Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking problems in coalition games involving both local and coupling constraints for multiple Euler-Lagrange (EL) systems subject to disturbances of unknown bounds. Within each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Cheng Yuwen , Jialing Zhou , Meng Luan , Guanghui Wen , Tingwen Huang

In this letter, we deal with evolutionary game theoretic learning processes for population games on networks with dynamically evolving communities. Specifically, we propose a novel mathematical framework in which a deterministic,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Alain Govaert , Lorenzo Zino , Emma Tegling

People choose their strategies through a trial-and-error learning process in which they gradually discover that some strategies work better than others. The process can be modelled as an evolutionary game dynamics system, which may be…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-02-21 Wang Zhijian

We introduce an analytical model to study the evolution towards equilibrium in spatial games, with `memory-aware' agents, i.e., agents that accumulate their payoff over time. In particular, we focus our attention on the spatial Prisoner's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-23 Marco Alberto Javarone

Mean field game equilibria are predicated on the assumption of immediate pairwise interactions within a population of homogeneous agents with asymptotically vanishing influence as population size increases. However, in many real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Farid Rajabali , Roland Malhame , Sadegh Bolouki

It is common to assume that agents will adopt Nash equilibrium strategies; however, experimental studies have demonstrated that Nash equilibrium is often a poor description of human players' behavior in unrepeated normal-form games. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-17 James R. Wright , Kevin Leyton-Brown

Feedback Nash equilibrium strategies in multi-agent dynamic games require availability of all players' state information to compute control actions. However, in real-world scenarios, sensing and communication limitations between agents make…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Xinjie Liu , Jingqi Li , Filippos Fotiadis , Mustafa O. Karabag , Jesse Milzman , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

Starting from a heuristic learning scheme for N-person games, we derive a new class of continuous-time learning dynamics consisting of a replicator-like drift adjusted by a penalty term that renders the boundary of the game's strategy space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pierre Coucheney , Bruno Gaujal , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

We consider the framework of average aggregative games, where the cost function of each agent depends on his own strategy and on the average population strategy. We focus on the case in which the agents are coupled not only via their cost…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Francesca Parise , Basilio Gentile , John Lygeros

This paper investigates the design of optimal strategy revision in Population Games (PG) by establishing its connection to finite-state Mean Field Games (MFG). Specifically, by linking Evolutionary Dynamics (ED) -- which models agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Julian Barreiro-Gomez , Shinkyu Park

In this paper we extend the framework of evolutionary inspection game put forward recently by the author and coworkers to a large class of conflict interactions dealing with the pressure executed by the major player (or principal) on the…

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

We consider a class of Wasserstein distributionally robust Nash equilibrium problems, where agents construct heterogeneous data-driven Wasserstein ambiguity sets using private samples and radii, in line with their individual risk-averse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Georgios Pantazis , Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani , Sergio Grammatico

The Inspection Game is the canonical model for the strategic conflict between law enforcement (inspectors) and citizens (potential criminals). Its classical Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium (MSNE) is afflicted by a paradox: the equilibrium…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-09 Bianca Y. S. Ishikawa , José F. Fontanari

We study the quality of outcomes in repeated games when the population of players is dynamically changing and participants use learning algorithms to adapt to the changing environment. Game theory classically considers Nash equilibria of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Thodoris Lykouris , Vasilis Syrgkanis , Eva Tardos

In the traditional game-theoretic set up, where agents select actions and experience corresponding utilities, an equilibrium is a configuration where no agent can improve their utility by unilaterally switching to a different action. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Basilio Gentile , Dario Paccagnan , Bolutife Ogunsula , John Lygeros

We use co-evolutionary genetic algorithms to model the players' learning process in several Cournot models, and evaluate them in terms of their convergence to the Nash Equilibrium. The "social-learning" versions of the two co-evolutionary…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-13 Mattheos K. Protopapas , Elias B. Kosmatopoulos , Francesco Battaglia

We consider multi-agent decision making where each agent optimizes its convex cost function subject to individual and coupling constraints. The constraint sets are compact convex subsets of a Euclidean space. To learn Nash equilibria, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour