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In many economic, social and political situations individuals carry out activities in groups (coalitions) rather than alone and on their own. Examples range from households and sport clubs to research networks, political parties and trade…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Gerhard J. Woeginger

The additively separable hedonic game (ASHG) is a model of coalition formation games on graphs. In this paper, we intensively and extensively investigate the computational complexity of finding several desirable solutions, such as a Nash…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Tesshu Hanaka , Hironori Kiya , Yasuhide Maei , Hirotaka Ono

We study strong stability of Nash equilibria in load balancing games of m (m >= 2) identical servers, in which every job chooses one of the m servers and each job wishes to minimize its cost, given by the workload of the server it chooses.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Bo Chen , Song-Song Li , Yu-Zhong Zhang

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

Self-play is a technique for machine learning in multi-agent systems where a learning algorithm learns by interacting with copies of itself. Self-play is useful for generating large quantities of data for learning, but has the drawback that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Revan MacQueen , James R. Wright

We are concerned with the stability of a coalitional game, i.e., a transferable-utility (TU) cooperative game. First, the concept of core can be weakened so that the blocking of changes is limited to only those with multilateral backings.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-04-24 Jian Yang

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

We introduce a novel class of Nash equilibrium seeking dynamics for non-cooperative games with a finite number of players, where the convergence to the Nash equilibrium is bounded by a KL function with a settling time that can be upper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Jorge I. Poveda , Miroslav Krstic , Tamer Basar

We consider multi-agent decision making where each agent optimizes its convex cost function subject to individual and coupling constraints. The constraint sets are compact convex subsets of a Euclidean space. To learn Nash equilibria, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

We study the existence and computation of Nash equilibria in concave games where the players' admissible strategies are subject to shared coupling constraints. Under playerwise concavity of constraints, we prove existence of Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Philip Jordan , Maryam Kamgarpour

This paper considers the problem of Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking in aggregative games, where the payoff function of each player depends on an aggregate of all players' actions. We present a distributed continuous time algorithm such that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Mehran Shakarami , Claudio De Persis , Nima Monshizadeh

This paper is devoted to the study of the long time behavior of Nash equilibria in Mean Field Games within the framework of displacement monotonicity. We first show that any two equilibria defined on the time horizon $[0,T]$ must be close…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Marco Cirant , Alpár R. Mészáros

In this paper, we study deterministic mean field games for agents who operate in a bounded domain. In this case, the existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibria cannot be deduced as for unrestricted state space because, for a large set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Piermarco Cannarsa , Rossana Capuani

We propose a notion of a stable partition in a coalitional game that is parametrized by the concept of a defection function. This function assigns to each partition of the grand coalition a set of different coalition arrangements for a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Krzysztof R. Apt , Tadeusz Radzik

Hedonic games model settings in which a set of agents have to be partitioned into groups which we call coalitions. In the enemy aversion model, each agent has friends and enemies, and an agent prefers to be in a coalition with as few…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Martin Durand , Laurin Erlacher , Johanne Müller Vistisen , Sofia Simola

Gale and Shapley introduced a matching problem between two sets of agents where each agent on one side has an exogenous preference ordering over the agents on the other side. They defined a matching as stable if no unmatched pair can both…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Felipe Garrido-Lucero , Rida Laraki

This paper addresses a class of network games played by dynamic agents using their outputs. Unlike most existing related works, the Nash equilibrium in this work is defined by functions of agent outputs instead of full agent states, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Meichen Guo , Claudio De Persis

In this paper, we investigate the noncooperative games of multi-agent systems. Different from existing noncooperative games, our formulation involves the high-order nonlinear dynamics of players, and the communication topologies among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Zhenhua Deng , Jin Luo

The Stable Roommates problem involves matching a set of agents into pairs based on the agents' strict ordinal preference lists. The matching must be stable, meaning that no two agents strictly prefer each other to their assigned partners. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Michael McKay , David Manlove

This paper develops a novel methodology to study robust stability properties of Nash equilibrium points in dynamic games. Small-gain techniques in modern mathematical control theory are used for the first time to derive conditions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Iasson Karafyllis , Zhong-Ping Jiang , George Athanasiou