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We apply Game Theory to a mathematical representation of two competing teams of agents connected within a complex network, where the ability of each side to manoeuvre their resource and degrade that of the other depends on their ability to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-12-06 Andrew C. Cullen , Tansu Alpcan , Alexander C. Kalloniatis

We introduce a cooperative Bayesian optimization problem for optimizing black-box functions of two variables where two agents choose together at which points to query the function but have only control over one variable each. This setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ali Khoshvishkaie , Petrus Mikkola , Pierre-Alexandre Murena , Samuel Kaski

In networking and computing, resource allocation is typically addressed using classical sharing protocols as, for instance, the proportional division rule, the max-min fair allocation , or other solutions inspired by cooperative game…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Francesca Fossati , Stefano Moretti , Stefano Secci

Cooperative MARL often assumes frequent access to global information in a data buffer, such as team rewards or other agents' actions, which is typically unrealistic in decentralized MARL systems due to high communication costs. When…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nuoya Xiong , Aarti Singh

We study sequential multi-issue trading between two greedily rational agents who exchange resources from a finite set of categories. Each agent's utility depends on its allocation, but the offering agent does not know the responding agent's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Surya Murthy , Mustafa O. Karabag , Ufuk Topcu

Recent superhuman results in games have largely been achieved in a variety of zero-sum settings, such as Go and Poker, in which agents need to compete against others. However, just like humans, real-world AI systems have to coordinate and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Adam Lerer , Hengyuan Hu , Jakob Foerster , Noam Brown

Multiagent negotiation mechanisms advise original solutions to several problems for which usual problem solving methods are inappropriate. Mainly negotiation models are based on agents' interactions through messages. Agents interact in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Samir Aknine

Recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) follow a familiar structure: A firm releases a large, pretrained model. It is designed to be adapted and tweaked by other entities to perform particular,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Benjamin Laufer , Jon Kleinberg , Hoda Heidari

Artificially intelligent agents deployed in the real-world will require the ability to reliably \textit{cooperate} with humans (as well as other, heterogeneous AI agents). To provide formal guarantees of successful cooperation, we must make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Robert Loftin , Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay , Mustafa Mert Çelikok

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

Network games provide a natural machinery to compactly represent strategic interactions among agents whose payoffs exhibit sparsity in their dependence on the actions of others. Besides encoding interaction sparsity, however, real networks…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Kun Jin , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Mingyan Liu

Commitments play a crucial role in game theory, shaping strategic interactions by either altering a player's own payoffs or influencing the incentives of others through outcome-contingent payments. While most research has focused on using…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Maria Alejandra Ramirez , Rosemarie Nagel , David Wolpert , Jürgen Jost

We propose a model of opinion formation on resource allocation among multiple topics by multiple agents, who are subject to hard budget constraints. We define a utility function for each agent and then derive a projected dynamical system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Prashil Wankhede , Nirabhra Mandal , Sonia Martínez , Pavankumar Tallapragada

Multi-objective optimization is a widely studied problem in diverse fields, such as engineering and finance, that seeks to identify a set of non-dominated solutions that provide optimal trade-offs among competing objectives. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Arash Heidari , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Tom Dhaene , Ivo Couckuyt

Game theory relies heavily on the availability of cardinal utility functions, but in fields such as matching markets, only ordinal preferences are typically elicited. The literature focuses on mechanisms with simple dominant strategies, but…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Fabian R. Pieroth , Martin Bichler

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

Efficient collaborative decision making is an important challenge for multiagent systems. Finding optimal joint actions is especially challenging when each agent has only imperfect information about the state of its environment. Such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Frans A. Oliehoek , Shimon Whiteson , Matthijs T. J. Spaan

Card games are widely used to study sequential decision-making under uncertainty, with real-world analogues in negotiation, finance, and cybersecurity. These games typically fall into three categories based on the flow of control: strictly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Will Wolf

AI agents will be predictable in certain ways that traditional agents are not. Where and how can we leverage this predictability in order to improve social welfare? We study this question in a game-theoretic setting where one agent can pay…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Vojtech Kovarik , Nathaniel Sauerberg , Lewis Hammond , Vincent Conitzer

The computation of a solution concept of a cooperative game usually employs values of all coalitions. However, in some applications, the values of some of the coalitions might be unknown due to high costs associated with their determination…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Martin Cerny , Michel Grabisch