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Humans possess innate collaborative capacities. However, effective teamwork often remains challenging. This study delves into the feasibility of collaboration within teams of rational, self-interested agents who engage in teamwork without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Alejandra López de Aberasturi Gómez , Carles Sierra , Jordi Sabater-Mir

Additively separable hedonic games (ASHGs) are a prominent model of coalition formation where agents' preferences are derived from their individual valuations of peers. While social welfare maximization in ASHGs has traditionally focused…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Marta Pagano , Alexander Schlenga

Hedonic diversity games are a variant of the classical Hedonic games designed to better model a variety of questions concerning diversity and fairness. Previous works mainly targeted the case with two diversity classes (represented as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Dušan Knop , Šimon Schierreich , Ondřej Suchý

We investigate verification and existence problems for prominent stability concepts in hedonic games with friends, enemies, and optionally with neutrals [8, 16]. We resolve several (long-standing) open questions [4, 16, 20, 23] and show…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jiehua Chen , Gergely Csáji , Sanjukta Roy , Sofia Simola

A community needs to be partitioned into disjoint groups; each community member has an underlying preference over the groups that they would want to be a member of. We are interested in finding a stable community structure: one where no…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ayumi Igarashi , Jakub Sliwinski , Yair Zick

We discuss similarities and differences between systems of interacting players maximizing their individual payoffs and particles minimizing their interaction energy. Long-run behavior of stochastic dynamics of spatial games with multiple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jacek Miekisz

We consider a stochastic tournament game in which each player is rewarded based on her rank in terms of the completion time of her own task and is subject to cost of effort. When players are homogeneous and the rewards are purely rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Erhan Bayraktar , Jakša Cvitanić , Yuchong Zhang

We propose an abstract approach to coalition formation that focuses on simple merge and split rules transforming partitions of a group of players. We identify conditions under which every iteration of these rules yields a unique partition.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Krzysztof R. Apt , Andreas Witzel

In hedonic diversity games (HDGs), recently introduced by Bredereck, Elkind and Igarashi (2019), each agent belongs to one of two classes (men and women, vegetarians and meat-eaters, junior and senior researchers), and agents' preferences…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Niclas Boehmer , Edith Elkind

An important task in the analysis of multiagent systems is to understand how groups of selfish players can form coalitions, i.e., work together in teams. In this paper, we study the dynamics of coalition formation under bounded rationality.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-03 John Augustine , Ning Chen , Edith Elkind , Angelo Fanelli , Nick Gravin , Dmitry Shiryaev

In many game-theoretic settings, agents are challenged with taking decisions against the uncertain behavior exhibited by others. Often, this uncertainty arises from multiple sources, e.g., incomplete information, limited computation,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Nicolas Lanzetti , Sylvain Fricker , Saverio Bolognani , Florian Dörfler , Dario Paccagnan

In this paper, we consider a Nash equilibrium seeking problem for a class of high-order multi-agent systems with unknown dynamics. Different from existing results for single integrators, we aim to steer the outputs of this class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-11 Yutao Tang , Peng Yi

Self-stabilization is an excellent approach for adding fault tolerance to a distributed multi-agent system. However, two properties of self-stabilization theory, convergence and closure, may not be satisfied if agents are selfish. To…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Amir Reza Ramtin , Don Towsley

We consider the coalition formation games with an additional component, `noisy preferences'. Moreover, such noisy preferences are available only for a sample of coalitions. We propose a multiplicative noise model and obtain the prediction…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Prashant Trivedi , Nandyala Hemachandra

This paper considers dyadic-exchange networks in which individual agents autonomously form coalitions of size two and agree on how to split a transferable utility. Valid results for this game include stable (if agents have no unilateral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-04 Dean Richert , Jorge Cortes

Due to the lack of coordination, it is unlikely that the selfish players of a strategic game reach a socially good state. A possible way to cope with selfishness is to compute a desired outcome (if it is tractable) and impose it. However…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-20 Bruno Escoffier , Laurent Gourvès , Jérôme Monnot

Coalition formation concerns strategic collaborations of selfish agents that form coalitions based on their preferences. It is often assumed that coalitions are disjoint and preferences are fully known, which may not hold in practice. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Saar Cohen

A key question in cooperative game theory is that of coalitional stability, usually captured by the notion of the \emph{core}--the set of outcomes such that no subgroup of players has an incentive to deviate. However, some coalitional games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-21 Yoram Bachrach , Edith Elkind , Reshef Meir , Dmitrii Pasechnik , Michael Zuckerman , Joerg Rothe , Jeffrey S. Rosenschein

We address the problem of assessing the robustness of the equilibria in uncertain, multi-agent games. Specifically, we focus on generalized Nash equilibrium problems in aggregative form subject to linear coupling constraints affected by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Filippo Fabiani , Kostas Margellos , Paul J. Goulart

Autonomous wireless agents such as unmanned aerial vehicles or mobile base stations present a great potential for deployment in next-generation wireless networks. While current literature has been mainly focused on the use of agents within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Walid Saad , Zhu Han , Tamer Basar , Merouane Debbah , Are Hjørungnes