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Effective optimization is essential for interactive systems to provide a satisfactory user experience. However, it is often challenging to find an objective to optimize for. Generally, such objectives are manually crafted and rarely capture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Ziming Li , Julia Kiseleva , Alekh Agarwal , Maarten de Rijke

Our ability to manipulate the behavior of complex networks depends on the design of efficient control algorithms and, critically, on the availability of an accurate and tractable model of the network dynamics. While the design of control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Giacomo Baggio , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

Ensuring robust decision-making in multi-agent systems is challenging when agents have distinct, possibly conflicting objectives and lack full knowledge of each other's strategies. This is apparent in safety-critical applications such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Francesco Bianchin , Robert Lefringhausen , Elisa Gaetan , Samuel Tesfazgi , Sandra Hirche

A cyber security problem in a networked system formulated as a resilient graph problem based on a game-theoretic approach is considered. The connectivity of the underlying graph of the network system is reduced by an attacker who removes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Yurid Nugraha , Ahmet Cetinkaya , Tomohisa Hayakawa , Hideaki Ishii , Quanyan Zhu

In this paper, we study a Target-Attacker-Defender (TAD) differential game involving one attacker, one target and multiple defenders. We consider two variations where (a) the attacker and the target have unlimited observation range and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Sharad Kumar Singh , Puduru Viswanadha Reddy

Game theory offers an interpretable mathematical framework for modeling multi-agent interactions. However, its applicability in real-world robotics applications is hindered by several challenges, such as unknown agents' preferences and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Christopher Diehl , Tobias Klosek , Martin Krüger , Nils Murzyn , Torsten Bertram

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

In this paper, we consider a learning problem among non-cooperative agents interacting in a time-varying system. Specifically, we focus on repeated linear quadratic network games, in which the network of interactions changes with time and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Feras Al Taha , Kiran Rokade , Francesca Parise

The real world is awash with multi-agent problems that require collective action by self-interested agents, from the routing of packets across a computer network to the management of irrigation systems. Such systems have local incentives…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Michiel A. Bakker , Richard Everett , Laura Weidinger , Iason Gabriel , William S. Isaac , Joel Z. Leibo , Edward Hughes

This paper is concerned with the problem of designing agents able to dynamically select information from multiple data sources in order to tackle tasks that involve tracking a target behavior while optimizing a reward. We formulate this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Émiland Garrabé , Giovanni Russo

Dynamic games arise when multiple agents with differing objectives control a dynamic system. They model a wide variety of applications in economics, defense, energy systems and etc. However, compared to single-agent control problems, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Bolei Di , Andrew Lamperski

In a noncooperative dynamic game, multiple agents operating in a changing environment aim to optimize their utilities over an infinite time horizon. Time-varying environments allow to model more realistic scenarios (e.g., mobile devices…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Santiago Zazo , Sergio Valcarcel Macua , Matilde Sánchez-Fernández , Javier Zazo

Modern artificial intelligence relies on networks of agents that collect data, process information, and exchange it with neighbors to collaboratively solve optimization and learning problems. This article introduces a novel distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Diego Deplano , Nicola Bastianello , Mauro Franceschelli , Karl H. Johansson

Individuals, or organizations, cooperate with or compete against one another in a wide range of practical situations. Such strategic interactions are often modeled as games played on networks, where an individual's payoff depends not only…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yan Leng , Xiaowen Dong , Junfeng Wu , Alex Pentland

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

We study the problem of designing dynamic intervention policies for minimizing networked defaults in financial networks. Formally, we consider a dynamic version of the celebrated Eisenberg-Noe model of financial network liabilities and use…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Marios Papachristou , Siddhartha Banerjee , Jon Kleinberg

We resort to game theory in order to formulate Data-Driven methods for solid mechanics in which stress and strain players pursue different objectives. The objective of the stress player is to minimize the discrepancy to a material data set,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Kerstin Weinberg , Laurent Strainier , Sergio Conti , Michael Ortiz

This paper proposes a novel approach to resilient distributed optimization with quadratic costs in a networked control system (e.g., wireless sensor network, power grid, robotic team) prone to external attacks (e.g., hacking, power outage)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Luca Ballotta , Giacomo Como , Jeff S. Shamma , Luca Schenato

This paper proposes networked dynamics to solve resource allocation problems over time-varying multi-agent networks. The state of each agent represents the amount of used resources (or produced utilities) while the total amount of resources…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi , Mohammad Pirani , Ehsan Nekouei , Usman A. Khan , Themistoklis Charalambous

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