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We prove that zero-sum Dynkin games in continuous time with partial and asymmetric information admit a value in randomised stopping times when the stopping payoffs of the players are general \cadlag measurable processes. As a by-product of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Tiziano De Angelis , Nikita Merkulov , Jan Palczewski

Bewley and Kohlberg (1976) and Mertens and Neyman (1981) have proved, respectively, the existence of the asymptotic value and the uniform value in zero-sum stochastic games with finite state space and finite action sets. In their work, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-12 Bruno Ziliotto

We introduce a "high probability" framework for repeated games with incomplete information. In our non-equilibrium setting, players aim to guarantee a certain payoff with high probability, rather than in expected value. We provide a high…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Payam Delgosha , Amin Gohari , Mohammad Akbarpour

We give an algorithm for solving stochastic parity games with almost-sure winning conditions on lossy channel systems, for the case where the players are restricted to finite-memory strategies. First, we describe a general framework, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-14 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Lorenzo Clemente , Richard Mayr , Sven Sandberg

In this paper, we consider a zero-sum undiscounted stochastic game which has finite state space and finitely many pure actions. Also, we assume the transition probability of the undiscounted stochastic game is controlled by one player and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Purba Das , T. Parthasarathy , G Ravindran

We propose a payoff function extending Minority Games (MG) that captures the competition between agents to make money. In constrast with previous MG, the best strategies are not always targeting the minority but are shifting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jorgen Vitting Andersen , Didier Sornette

We introduce the class of pay or play games, which captures scenarios in which each decision maker is faced with a choice between two actions: one with a fixed payoff and an- other with a payoff dependent on others' selected actions. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Sigal Oren , Michael Schapira , Moshe Tennenholtz

We consider two-player normal form games where each player has the same finite strategy set. The payoffs of each player are assumed to be i.i.d. random variables with a continuous distribution. We show that, with high probability, the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-03 Ben Amiet , Andrea Collevecchio , Kais Hamza

In this paper, we study one-player and two-player energy mean-payoff games. Energy mean-payoff games are games of infinite duration played on a finite graph with edges labeled by 2-dimensional weight vectors. The objective of the first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Mickael Randour , Jean-François Raskin

In this paper, we solve the constant-payoff conjecture formulated by Sorin, Venel and Vigeral (2010), for absorbing games with an arbitrary evaluation of the stage rewards. That is, the existence of a pair of asymptotically optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Miquel Oliu-Barton

We study a random game in which two players in turn play a fixed number of moves. For each move, there are two possible choices. To each possible outcome of the game we assign a winner in an i.i.d. fashion with a fixed parameter p. In the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Natalia Cardona-Tobón , Anja Sturm , Jan M. Swart

In this paper, we investigate the multiplayer General Lotto game across multiple battlefields, a significant variant of the Colonel Blotto game. In this version, each player employs a probability distribution for resource allocation,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yan Liu , Bonan Ni , Weiran Shen , Zihe Wang , Jie Zhang

In this paper we consider two-person zero-sum risk-sensitive stochastic dynamic games with Borel state and action spaces and bounded reward. The term risk-sensitive refers to the fact that instead of the usual risk neutral optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Nicole Bäuerle , Ulrich Rieder

We present and study a variant of the mean payoff games introduced by A. Ehrenfeucht and J. Mycielski. In this version, the second player makes an infinite sequence of moves only after the first player's sequence of moves has been decided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tom Meyerovitch , Aidan Young

In this paper, we study the notion of adversarial Stackelberg value for two-player non-zero sum games played on bi-weighted graphs with the mean-payoff and the discounted sum functions. The adversarial Stackelberg value of Player 0 is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Emmanuel Filiot , Raffaella Gentilini , Jean-François Raskin

This article deals with classes of antagonistic games with two players. A game is specified in terms of two `hostile' stochastic processes representing mutual attacks upon random times exerting casualties of random magnitudes. The game ends…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-23 J. H. Dshalalow , K. Iwezulu , R. T. White

Stochastic games combine controllable and adversarial non-determinism with stochastic behavior and are a common tool in control, verification and synthesis of reactive systems facing uncertainty. Multi-objective stochastic games are natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Tobias Winkler , Maximilian Weininger

We study infinite two-player games where one of the players is unsure about the set of moves available to the other player. In particular, the set of moves of the other player is a strict superset of what she assumes it to be. We explore…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Nicholas Asher , Soumya Paul

We study adaptive learning in a typical p-player game. The payoffs of the games are randomly generated and then held fixed. The strategies of the players evolve through time as the players learn. The trajectories in the strategy space…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2018-04-09 James B. T. Sanders , J. Doyne Farmer , Tobias Galla

We are interested in the convergence of the value of n-stage games as n goes to infinity and the existence of the uniform value in stochastic games with a general set of states and finite sets of actions where the transition is commutative.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Xavier Venel