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Evolutionary game theory is a successful mathematical framework geared towards understanding the selective pressures that affect the evolution of the strategies of agents engaged in interactions with potential conflicts. While a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-01 Christoph Adami , Jory Schossau , Arend Hintze

The actions of an autonomous vehicle on the road affect and are affected by those of other drivers, whether overtaking, negotiating a merge, or avoiding an accident. This mutual dependence, best captured by dynamic game theory, creates a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Jaime F. Fisac , Eli Bronstein , Elis Stefansson , Dorsa Sadigh , S. Shankar Sastry , Anca D. Dragan

Modeling the interaction between traffic agents is a key issue in designing safe and non-conservative maneuvers in autonomous driving. This problem can be challenging when multi-modality and behavioral uncertainties are engaged. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhenmin Huang , Tong Li , Shaojie Shen , Jun Ma

We present a novel algorithm for game-theoretic trajectory planning, tailored for settings in which agents can only observe one another in specific regions of the state space. Such problems arise naturally in the context of multi-robot…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kushagra Gupta , David Fridovich-Keil

Dynamic game theory is an increasingly popular tool for modeling multi-agent, e.g. human-robot, interactions. Game-theoretic models presume that each agent wishes to minimize a private cost function that depends on others' actions. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Cade Armstrong , Ryan Park , Xinjie Liu , Kushagra Gupta , David Fridovich-Keil

Game theory offers an interpretable mathematical framework for modeling multi-agent interactions. However, its applicability in real-world robotics applications is hindered by several challenges, such as unknown agents' preferences and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Christopher Diehl , Tobias Klosek , Martin Krüger , Nils Murzyn , Torsten Bertram

Matrix games constitute a fundamental problem of game theory and describe a situation of two players with completely conflicting interests. We show how methods from statistical mechanics can be used to investigate the statistical properties…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Berg , A. Engel

Planning safe robot motions in the presence of humans requires reliable forecasts of future human motion. However, simply predicting the most likely motion from prior interactions does not guarantee safety. Such forecasts fail to model the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Kushal Kedia , Prithwish Dan , Sanjiban Choudhury

This paper presents a succinct review of attempts in the literature to use game theory to model decision making scenarios relevant to defence applications. Game theory has been proven as a very effective tool in modelling decision making…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Edwin Ho , Arvind Rajagopalan , Alex Skvortsov , Sanjeev Arulampalam , Mahendra Piraveenan

This paper uses category theory to develop an entirely new approach to approximate game theory. Game theory is the study of how different agents within a multi-agent system take decisions. At its core, game theory asks what an optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Neil Ghani

The field of Game Theory provides a useful mechanism for modeling many decision-making scenarios. In participating in these scenarios individuals and groups adopt particular strategies, which generally perform with varying levels of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Francis Lawlor , Rem Collier , Vivek Nallur

Game-theoretic agents must make plans that optimally gather information about their opponents. These problems are modeled by partially observable stochastic games (POSGs), but planning in fully continuous POSGs is intractable without heavy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mel Krusniak , Hang Xu , Parker Palermo , Forrest Laine

Maneuvering in dense traffic is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles because it requires reasoning about the stochastic behaviors of many other participants. In addition, the agent must achieve the maneuver within a limited time and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Maxime Bouton , Alireza Nakhaei , David Isele , Kikuo Fujimura , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Extensive work has been conducted both in game theory and logic to model strategic interaction. An important question is whether we can use these theories to design agents for interacting with people? On the one hand, they provide a formal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Sarit Kraus

Evolutionary game theory is a common framework to study the evolution of cooperation, where it is usually assumed that the same game is played in all interactions. Here, we investigate a model where the game that is played by two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-21 Marco A. Amaral , Jafferson K. L. da Silva , Lucas Wardil

Game theory offers a powerful framework for analyzing strategic interactions among decision-makers, providing tools to model, analyze, and predict their behavior. However, implementing game theory can be challenging due to difficulties in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Yaoqi Yang , Hongyang Du , Geng Sun , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

In Formula 1, race strategies are adapted according to evolving race conditions and competitors' actions. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning approach for multi-agent race strategy optimization. Agents learn to balance energy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Giona Fieni , Joschua Wüthrich , Marc-Philippe Neumann , Christopher H. Onder

This paper presents an approach that brings together game theory with grammatical inference and discrete abstractions in order to synthesize control strategies for hybrid dynamical systems performing tasks in partially unknown but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-10-08 Jie Fu , Herbert G. Tanner , Jeffrey Heinz , Jane Chandlee , Konstantinos Karydis , Cesar Koirala

We introduce a new class of context dependent, incomplete information games to serve as structured prediction models for settings with significant strategic interactions. Our games map the input context to outcomes by first condensing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Vikas K. Garg , Tommi Jaakkola

When two or more self-interested agents put their plans to execution in the same environment, conflicts may arise as a consequence, for instance, of a common utilization of resources. In this case, an agent can postpone the execution of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Jaume Jordán , Eva Onaindia