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In this work, we introduce the Deceptive Resource Allocation Game (DRAG), which studies purposeful deception within a Bayesian game framework. In DRAG, a Defender allocates resources across the true asset and several decoys to influence an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Longxu Pan , Yue Guan , Daigo Shishika , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, the problem of seeking optimal distributed resource allocation (DRA) policies on cellular networks in the presence of an unknown malicious adding-edge attacker is investigated. This problem is described as the games of games…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Yukang Cui , Xinru Yang , Tingwen Huang , Xin Gong

This paper develops a distributed resource allocation game to study countries' pursuit of targets such as self-survival in the networked international environment. The contributions are two. First, the game formalizes countries' power…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Yuke Li , A. S Morse

Distributed online optimization and game have been increasingly researched in the last decade, mostly motivated by its wide applications in sensor networks, robotics (e.g., distributed target tracking and formation control), smart grids,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xiuxian Li , Lihua Xie , Na Li

In this work, we develop a scalable, local trajectory optimization algorithm that enables robots to interact with other robots. It has been shown that agents' interactions can be successfully captured in game-theoretic formulations, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zach Williams , Jushan Chen , Negar Mehr

We present a new type of coordination mechanism among multiple agents for the allocation of a finite resource, such as the allocation of time slots for passing an intersection. We consider the setting where we associate one counter to each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Andrea Censi , Saverio Bolognani , Julian G. Zilly , Shima Sadat Mousavi , Emilio Frazzoli

This paper aims to reduce the communication and computation costs of the Nash equilibrium seeking strategy for the $N$-coalition noncooperative games proposed in [1]. The objective is achieved in two manners: 1. An interference graph is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Maojiao Ye , Guoqiang Hu , Frank L. Lewis , Lihua Xie

This paper investigates the potential benefits of cooperation in scenarios where finitely many agents compete for shared resources, leading to congestion and thereby reduced rewards. By appropriate coordination the members of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Riya Sultana , Veeraruna Kavitha

Motivated by the complex dynamics of cooperative and competitive interactions within networked agent systems, multi-cluster games provide a framework for modeling the interconnected goals of self-interested clusters of agents. For this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Mattia Bianchi , Florian Dörfler , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedić

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

The multi-cluster games are addressed in this paper, where all players team up with the players in the cluster that they belong to, and compete against the players in other clusters to minimize the cost function of their own cluster. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Zhenhua Deng , Yan Zhao

We propose a simple, general and effective technique, Reward Randomization for discovering diverse strategic policies in complex multi-agent games. Combining reward randomization and policy gradient, we derive a new algorithm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Zhenggang Tang , Chao Yu , Boyuan Chen , Huazhe Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Fei Fang , Simon Du , Yu Wang , Yi Wu

We investigate a multi-agent decision-making problem where a large population of agents is responsible for carrying out a set of assigned tasks. The amount of jobs in each task varies over time governed by a dynamical system model. Each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Shinkyu Park , Julian Barreiro-Gomez

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

We propose a type of non-cooperative game, termed multi-cluster aggregative game, which is composed of clusters as players, where each cluster consists of collaborative agents with cost functions depending on their own decisions and the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yue Chen , Peng Yi

The framework of multi-agent learning explores the dynamics of how individual agent strategies evolve in response to the evolving strategies of other agents. Of particular interest is whether or not agent strategies converge to well known…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sarah A. Toonsi , Jeff S. Shamma

In this paper, we present the Proportional Payoff Allocation Game (PPA-Game), which characterizes situations where agents compete for divisible resources. In the PPA-game, agents select from available resources, and their payoffs are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Renzhe Xu , Haotian Wang , Xingxuan Zhang , Bo Li , Peng Cui

We study a game-theoretic variant of the maximum circulation problem. In a flow allocation game, we are given a directed flow network. Each node is a rational agent and can strategically allocate any incoming flow to the outgoing edges.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Nils Bertschinger , Martin Hoefer , Daniel Schmand

In this work, we consider the problem of autonomous racing with multiple agents where agents must interact closely and influence each other to compete. We model interactions among agents through a game-theoretical framework and propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yixuan Jia , Maulik Bhatt , Negar Mehr

A key challenge in distributed coalition formation within characteristic function games is determining how to allocate the calculation of coalition values across a set of agents. The number of possible coalitions grows exponentially with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Terry R. Payne , Luke Riley