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Recent theory shows that extortioners taking advantage of the zero-determinant (ZD) strategy can unilaterally claim an unfair share of the payoffs in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. It is thus suggested that against a fixed extortioner,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-13 Xingru Chen , Feng Fu

Economic ensembles can be modeled as networks of interacting agents whose be-haviors are described in terms of game theory. The evolutionary paradigm has been applied to two-person games to discover strategies in this context.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Wan Ahmad Tajuddin Wan Abdullah

Repeated game theory has been one of the most prevailing tools for understanding the long-run relationships, which are footstones in building human society. Recent works have revealed a new set of "zero-determinant (ZD)" strategies, which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Dong Hao , Zhihai Rong , Tao Zhou

An oligopoly is a market in which the price of goods is controlled by a few firms. Cournot introduced the simplest game-theoretic model of oligopoly, where profit-maximizing behavior of each firm results in market failure. Furthermore, when…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-09 Masahiko Ueda , Shoma Yagi , Genki Ichinose

We add the assumption that players know their opponents' payoff functions and rationality to a model of non-equilibrium learning in signaling games. Agents are born into player roles and play against random opponents every period.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-01-16 Drew Fudenberg , Kevin He

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

This paper studies the mechanisms, implications, and potential applications of the recently discovered class of Zero Determinant (ZD) strategies in iterated 2x2 games. These strategies were reported to successfully extort pure economic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Lars Roemheld

Zero Determinant (ZD) strategies are a new class of probabilistic and conditional strategies that are able to unilaterally set the expected payoff of an opponent in iterated plays of the Prisoner's Dilemma irrespective of the opponent's…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-07 Christoph Adami , Arend Hintze

We investigate a class of reinforcement learning dynamics where players adjust their strategies based on their actions' cumulative payoffs over time - specifically, by playing mixed strategies that maximize their expected cumulative payoff…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , William H. Sandholm

Since the introduction of zero-determinant strategies, extortionate strategies have received considerable interest. While an interesting class of strategies, the definitions of extortionate strategies are algebraically rigid, apply only to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Vincent A. Knight , Marc Harper , Nikoleta E. Glynatsi , Jonathan Gillard

In this note, we consider repeated play of a finite game using learning rules whose period-by-period behavior probabilities or empirical distributions converge to some notion of equilibria of the stage game. Our primary focus is on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 M. Sadegh Talebi

In repeated interactions between individuals, we do not expect that exactly the same situation will occur from one time to another. Contrary to what is common in models of repeated games in the literature, most real situations may differ a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Anders Eriksson , Kristian Lindgren

We study the set of (stationary) feasible payoffs of overlapping generation repeated games that can be achieved by action sequences in which every generation of players plays the same sequence of action profiles. First, we completely…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-12-25 Daehyun Kim , Chihiro Morooka

Imitation sometimes achieves success in multi-agent situations even though it is very simple. In game theory, success of imitation has been characterized by unbeatability against other agents. Previous studies specified conditions under…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-23 Masahiko Ueda

Repeated games are a framework for investigating long-term interdependence of multi-agent systems. In repeated games, zero-determinant (ZD) strategies attract much attention in evolutionary game theory, since they can unilaterally control…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-23 Ken Nakamura , Masahiko Ueda

In communication systems where users share common resources, users' selfish behavior usually results in suboptimal resource utilization. There have been extensive works that model communication systems with selfish users as one-shot games…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-11 Yuanzhang Xiao , Jaeok Park , Mihaela van der Schaar

We consider a network of coupled agents playing the Prisoner's Dilemma game, in which players are allowed to pick a strategy in the interval [0,1], with 0 corresponding to defection, 1 to cooperation, and intermediate values representing…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-28 Francesco Sorrentino , Nicholas Mecholsky

Consider a 2-player normal-form game repeated over time. We introduce an adaptive learning procedure, where the players only observe their own realized payoff at each stage. We assume that agents do not know their own payoff function, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Mario Bravo , Mathieu Faure

In an iterated game between two players, there is much interest in characterizing the set of feasible payoffs for both players when one player uses a fixed strategy and the other player is free to switch. Such characterizations have led to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-18 Alex McAvoy , Martin A. Nowak

Recent work has revealed a new class of "zero-determinant" (ZD) strategies for iterated, two-player games. ZD strategies allow a player to unilaterally enforce a linear relationship between her score and her opponent's score, and thus…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-30 Alexander J. Stewart , Joshua B. Plotkin