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We introduce a new graph problem, the token dropping game, and we show how to solve it efficiently in a distributed setting. We use the token dropping game as a tool to design an efficient distributed algorithm for stable orientations and…

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Motivated by applications in job scheduling, queuing networks, and load balancing in cyber-physical systems, we develop and analyze a game-theoretic framework to balance the load among servers in static and dynamic settings. In these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Fatemeh Fardno , S. Rasoul Etesami

Stochastic patrol routing is known to be advantageous in adversarial settings; however, the optimal choice of stochastic routing strategy is dependent on a model of the adversary. We adopt a worst-case omniscient adversary model from the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Yohan John , Gilberto Diaz-Garcia , Xiaoming Duan , Jason R. Marden , Francesco Bullo

The Colonel Blotto game, introduced by Borel in the 1920s, is often used for modeling various real-life settings, such as elections, lobbying, etc. The game is based on the allocation of limited resources by players to a set of fields. Each…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-07-25 Sidarth Erat

This paper considers the distributed strategy design for Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking in multi-cluster games under a partial-decision information scenario. In the considered game, there are multiple clusters and each cluster consists of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Min Meng , Xiuxian Li

This paper addresses the task allocation problem for multi-robot systems. The main issue with the task allocation problem is inherent complexity that makes finding an optimal solution within a reasonable time almost impossible. To hand the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Hyo-Sang Shin , Teng Li , Pau Segui-Gasco

Mobile edge computing seeks to provide resources to different delay-sensitive applications. However, allocating the limited edge resources to a number of applications is a challenging problem. To alleviate the resource scarcity problem, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Faheem Zafari , Jian Li , Kin K Leung , Don Towsley , Ananthram Swami

Two-stage Colonel Blotto game represents a typical adversarial resource allocation problem, in which two opposing agents sequentially allocate resources in a network topology across two phases: an initial resource deployment followed by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yang Lv , Jinlong Lei , Peng Yi

We study decentralized learning in two-player zero-sum discounted Markov games where the goal is to design a policy optimization algorithm for either agent satisfying two properties. First, the player does not need to know the policy of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zhuoqing Song , Jason D. Lee , Zhuoran Yang

In this paper, a novel framework is presented that achieves a combined solution based on Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) and collision avoidance with respect to homogeneous measurement tasks taking place in industrial environments. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Rathin Chandra Shit , Sharmila Subudhi

In order to understand if and how strategic resource allocation can constrain the structure of pair-wise competition outcomes in competitive human competitions we introduce a new multiplayer resource allocation game, the Population Lotto…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Giovanni Artiglio , Aiden Youkhana , Joel Nishimura

We introduce Contested Logistics Games, a variant of logistics problems that account for the presence of an adversary that can disrupt the movement of goods in selected areas. We model this as a large two-player zero-sum one-shot game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jakub Cerny , Chun Kai Ling , Darshan Chakrabarti , Jingwen Zhang , Gabriele Farina , Christian Kroer , Garud Iyengar

Contemporary applications of machine learning in two-team e-sports and the superior expressivity of multi-agent generative adversarial networks raise important and overlooked theoretical questions regarding optimization in two-team games.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Fivos Kalogiannis , Ioannis Panageas , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis

The Colonel Blotto game, formulated by Emile Borel, involves players allocating limited resources to multiple battlefields simultaneously, with the winner being the one who allocates more resources to each battlefield. Computation of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Debtoru Chatterjee , Girish Tiwari , Niladri Chatterjee

In this paper, we present a dual-layer online optimization strategy for defender robots operating in multiplayer reach-avoid games within general convex environments. Our goal is to intercept as many attacker robots as possible without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Junwei Liu , Zikai Ouyang , Jiahui Yang , Hua Chen , Haibo Lu , Wei Zhang

Auctions are modeled as Bayesian games with continuous type and action spaces. Determining equilibria in auction games is computationally hard in general and no exact solution theory is known. We introduce an algorithmic framework in which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Martin Bichler , Maximilian Fichtl , Matthias Oberlechner

In the Colonel Blotto game, two players with a fixed budget simultaneously allocate their resources across n battlefields to maximize the aggregate value gained from the battlefields where they have the higher allocation. Despite its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Dong Quan Vu , Patrick Loiseau , Alonso Silva

We consider the problem of dynamically allocating tasks to multiple agents under time window constraints and task completion uncertainty. Our objective is to minimize the number of unsuccessful tasks at the end of the operation horizon. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shushman Choudhury , Jayesh K. Gupta , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Dorsa Sadigh , Jeannette Bohg

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

We study deception in adversarial graph traversal, where a mobile agent seeks to reach a goal with minimum cost while an adversary alters edge costs to increase the total traversal cost. Unlike prior works that assume fixed…

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