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We consider average-energy games, where the goal is to minimize the long-run average of the accumulated energy. While several results have been obtained on these games recently, decidability of average-energy games with a lower-bound…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Patricia Bouyer , Piotr Hofman , Nicolas Markey , Mickael Randour , Martin Zimmermann

We consider infinite duration alternating move games. These games were previously studied by Roth, Balcan, Kalai and Mansour. They presented an FPTAS for computing an approximated equilibrium, and conjectured that there is a polynomial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Yaron Velner

We introduce a natural variant of weighted voting games, which we refer to as k-Prize Weighted Voting Games. Such games consist of n players with weights, and k prizes, of possibly differing values. The players form coalitions, and the i-th…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Wei-Chen Lee , David Hyland , Alessandro Abate , Edith Elkind , Jiarui Gan , Julian Gutierrez , Paul Harrenstein , Michael Wooldridge

This paper has a twofold scope. The first one is to clarify and put in evidence the isomorphic character of two theories developed in quite different fields: on one side, threshold logic, on the other side, simple games. One of the main…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Josep Freixas , Marc Freixas , Sascha Kurz

We study a generalisation of B\"uchi-Landweber games to the timed setting. The winning condition is specified by a non-deterministic timed automaton with epsilon transitions and only Player I can elapse time. We show that for fixed number…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Lorenzo Clemente , Sławomir Lasota , Radosław Piórkowski

This paper introduced a pursuit and evasion game to be played on a connected graph. One player moves invisibly around the graph, and the other player must guess his position. At each time step the second player guesses a vertex, winning if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-24 John Haslegrave

In this paper an N-pursuer vs. M-evader team conflict is studied. The differential game of border defense is addressed and we focus on the game of degree in the region of the state space where the pursuers are able to win. This work extends…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Eloy Garcia , David W. Casbeer , Alexander Von Moll , Meir Pachter

We define a variant of the two-dimensional Silver Dollar game. Two coins are placed on a chessboard of unbounded size, and two players take turns choosing one of the coins and moving it. Coins are to be moved to the left or upward…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Ryohei Miyadera , Enchong Li , Akito Tsujii

We consider a pursuit-evasion differential game with a Hybrid system of dynamics in Hilbert space with integral constraints on the control functions of players. We show that the pursuer has a winning strategy.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Mehdi Salimi

We study infinite two-player games where one of the players is unsure about the set of moves available to the other player. In particular, the set of moves of the other player is a strict superset of what she assumes it to be. We explore…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Nicholas Asher , Soumya Paul

Determining how close a winner of an election is to becoming a loser, or distinguishing between different possible winners of an election, are major problems in computational social choice. We tackle these problems for so-called weighted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Michelle Döring , Jannik Peters

We study pursuit-evasion differential games between a faster pursuer moving in 3D space and an evader moving in a plane. We first extend the well-known Apollonius circle to 3D space, by which we construct the isochron for the considered two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Shuai Li , Chen Wang , Guangming Xie

For a family of multidimensional gambler models we provide formulas for the winning probabilities (in terms of parameters of the system) and for the distribution of game duration (in terms of eigenvalues of underlying one-dimensional…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Paweł Lorek , Piotr Markowski

We introduce and study Minkowski games. These are two player games, where the players take turns to chose positions in $\mathbb{R}^d$ based on some rules. Variants include boundedness games, where one player wants to keep the positions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Stéphane Le Roux , Arno Pauly , Jean-François Raskin

We study variations on combinatorial games in which, instead of alternating moves, the players bid with discrete bidding chips for the right to determine who moves next. We consider both symmetric and partisan games, and explore differences…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-13 Mike Develin , Sam Payne

We consider a new class of repeated zero-sum games in which the payoff is the escape rate of a switched dynamical system, where at every stage, the transition is given by a nonexpansive operator depending on the actions of both players.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Loïc Marchesini

We define a version of the Ehrenfeucht-Fra\"iss\'e game in the setting of metric model theory and continuous first-order logic and show that the second player having a winning strategy in a game of length $n$ exactly corresponds to being…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Åsa Hirvonen , Joni Puljujärvi

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of the discrete-time exponential-weights dynamic with a constant step size on all general-sum and symmetric $2 \times 2$ normal-form games, i.e. games with $2$ pure strategies per player, and where the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Guanghui Wang , Krishna Acharya , Lokranjan Lakshmikanthan , Juba Ziani , Vidya Muthukumar

In this paper we consider positional games where the winning sets are tree universal graphs. Specifically, we show that in the unbiased Maker-Breaker game on the complete graph $K_n$, Maker has a strategy to occupy a graph which contains…

We study $n$-dimensional contests between two players with heterogeneous effort costs, where each dimension (battle) is modeled as a Tullock contest. Prize-allocation rules are identity-independent, budget-balanced, and weakly increasing in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-31 Siyuan Fan , Zhonghong Kuang , Jingfeng Lu