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Network games provide a powerful framework for modeling agent interactions in networked systems, where players are represented by nodes in a graph and their payoffs depend on the actions taken by their neighbors. Extending the framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Constantin Ickstadt , Thorsten Theobald , Elias Tsigaridas , Antonios Varvitsiotis

We study network games in which players choose both the partners with whom they associate and an action level (e.g., effort) that creates spillovers for those partners. We introduce a framework and two solution concepts, extending standard…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-02-07 Evan Sadler , Benjamin Golub

We consider network contribution games, where each agent in a social network has a budget of effort that he can contribute to different collaborative projects or relationships. Depending on the contribution of the involved agents a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-27 Elliot Anshelevich , Martin Hoefer

Network games provide a natural machinery to compactly represent strategic interactions among agents whose payoffs exhibit sparsity in their dependence on the actions of others. Besides encoding interaction sparsity, however, real networks…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Kun Jin , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Mingyan Liu

We model the formation of networks as a game where players aspire to maximize their own centrality by increasing the number of other players to which they are path-wise connected, while simultaneously incurring a cost for each added…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Ryan Tatko , Christopher Griffin

Purpose: We propose a model to present a possible mechanism for obtaining sizeable behavioural structures by simulating an agent based on the evolutionary public good game with available social learning. Methods: The model considered a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chulwook Park

Many real-world systems are composed of interdependent networks that rely on one another. Such networks are typically designed and operated by different entities, who aim at maximizing their own payoffs. There exists a game among these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-08 Yuhang Fan , Gongze Cao , Shibo He , Jiming Chen , Youxian Sun

We establish a network formation game for the Internet's Autonomous System (AS) interconnection topology. The game includes different types of players, accounting for the heterogeneity of ASs in the Internet. In this network formation game,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Eli A. Meirom , Shie Mannor , Ariel Orda

The inequality in capital or resource distribution is among the important phenomena observed in populations. The sources of inequality and methods for controlling it are of practical interest. To study this phenomenon, we introduce a model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-29 Jarosław Adam Miszczak

Network creation games have been extensively studied, both from economists and computer scientists, due to their versatility in modeling individual-based community formation processes, which in turn are the theoretical counterpart of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Davide Bilò , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

We study a network formation game where agents receive benefits by forming connections to other agents but also incur both direct and indirect costs from the formed connections. Specifically, once the agents have purchased their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yu Chen , Shahin Jabbari , Michael Kearns , Sanjeev Khanna , Jamie Morgenstern

We consider a dynamic social network model in which agents play repeated games in pairings determined by a stochastically evolving social network. Individual agents begin to interact at random, with the interactions modeled as games. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brian Skyrms , Robin Pemantle

In competitive resource allocation formulations multiple agents compete over different contests by committing their limited resources in them. For these settings, contest games offer a game-theoretic foundation to analyze how players can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Gilberto Diaz-Garcia , Francesco Bullo , Jason R. Marden

This paper studies a stochastic game theoretic approach to security and intrusion detection in communication and computer networks. Specifically, an Attacker and a Defender take part in a two-player game over a network of nodes whose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-03-15 Kien C. Nguyen , Tansu Alpcan , Tamer Basar

Human behavioural patterns exhibit selfish or competitive, as well as selfless or altruistic tendencies, both of which have demonstrable effects on human social and economic activity. In behavioural economics, such effects have…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Jan E. Snellman , Gerardo Iñiguez , János Kertész , R. A. Barrio , Kimmo K. Kaski

Recent years have witnessed significant advances in technologies and services in modern network applications, including smart grid management, wireless communication, cybersecurity as well as multi-agent autonomous systems. Considering the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Tao Li , Guanze Peng , Quanyan Zhu , Tamer Basar

Besides the structure of interactions within networks, also the interactions between networks are of the outmost importance. We therefore study the outcome of the public goods game on two interdependent networks that are connected by means…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-13 Zhen Wang , Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Various social contexts ranging from public goods provision to information collection can be depicted as games of strategic interactions, where a player's well-being depends on her own action as well as on the actions taken by her…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-01 Giulio Cimini , Claudio Castellano , Angel Sánchez

In a social system, the self-interest of agents can be detrimental to the collective good, sometimes leading to social dilemmas. To resolve such a conflict, a central designer may intervene by either redesigning the system or incentivizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Jiayang Li , Jing Yu , Yu Marco Nie , Zhaoran Wang

We demonstrate that a ubiquitous feature of network games, bilateral strategic interactions, is equivalent to having player utilities that are additively separable across opponents. We distinguish two formal notions of bilateral strategic…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-20 Joseph Root , Evan Sadler