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In this paper, we consider stochastic monotone Nash games where each player's strategy set is characterized by possibly a large number of explicit convex constraint inequalities. Notably, the functional constraints of each player may depend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Zeinab Alizadeh , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Farzad Yousefian

We present a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm for computing $d^{d+o(d)}$-approximate (pure) Nash equilibria in (proportional sharing) weighted congestion games with polynomial cost functions of degree at most $d$. This is an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Georgy Noarov , Andreas S. Schulz

Social distance games have been extensively studied as a coalition formation model where the utilities of agents in each coalition were captured using a utility function $u$ that took into account distances in a given social network. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Dušan Knop , Sanjukta Roy , Šimon Schierreich , Ondřej Suchý

Hedonic diversity games are a variant of the classical Hedonic games designed to better model a variety of questions concerning diversity and fairness. Previous works mainly targeted the case with two diversity classes (represented as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Dušan Knop , Šimon Schierreich , Ondřej Suchý

We study the problem of fair allocation of a set of indivisible items among agents with additive valuations, under matroid constraints and two generalizations: $p$-extendible system and independence system constraints. The objective is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yuanyuan Wang , Xin Chen , Qingqin Nong

Hedonic games are an archetypal problem in coalition formation, where a set of selfish agents want to partition themselves into stable coalitions. In this work, we focus on two natural constraints on the possible outcomes. First, we require…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Foivos Fioravantes , Harmender Gahlawat , Nikolaos Melissinos , Šimon Schierreich

Game-theoretic techniques and equilibria analysis facilitate the design and verification of competitive systems. While algorithmic complexity of equilibria computation has been extensively studied, practical implementation and application…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker , Gabriel Santos

We consider a weighted Shapley network design game, where selfish players choose paths in a network to minimize their cost. The cost function of each edge in the network is affine linear with respect to the sum of weights of the players who…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hangxin Gan , Xianhao Meng , Chunying Ren , Yongtang Shi

We consider two player quadratic games in a cooperative framework known as social value orientation, motivated by the need to account for complex interactions between humans and autonomous agents in dynamical systems. Social value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Dan Calderone , Meeko Oishi

In this paper, we compute $\epsilon$-approximate Nash equilibria in atomic splittable polymatroid congestion games with convex Lipschitz continuous cost functions. The main approach relies on computing a pure Nash equilibrium for an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Tobias Harks , Veerle Timmermans

The $\varepsilon$-well-supported Nash equilibrium is a strong notion of approximation of a Nash equilibrium, where no player has an incentive greater than $\varepsilon$ to deviate from any of the pure strategies that she uses in her mixed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Artur Czumaj , Michail Fasoulakis , Marcin Jurdziński

Hedonic games -- at the interface of cooperative game theory and computational social choice -- are coalition formation games in which the players have preferences over the coalitions they can join. Kerkmann et al. [13] introduced…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jörg Rothe , Ildikó Schlotter

In this paper we consider strategic cost sharing games with so-called arbitrary sharing based on various combinatorial optimization problems, such as vertex and set cover, facility location, and network design problems. We concentrate on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-17 Martin Hoefer

We study a general scenario of simultaneous contests that allocate prizes based on equal sharing: each contest awards its prize to all players who satisfy some contest-specific criterion, and the value of this prize to a winner decreases as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Edith Elkind , Abheek Ghosh , Paul W. Goldberg

In an epsilon-Nash equilibrium, a player can gain at most epsilon by changing his behaviour. Recent work has addressed the question of how best to compute epsilon-Nash equilibria, and for what values of epsilon a polynomial-time algorithm…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 John Fearnley , Paul W. Goldberg , Rahul Savani , Troels Bjerre Sørensen

Cooperative games can be distinguished as non-cooperative games in which players can freely sign binding agreements to form coalitions. These coalitions inherit a joint strategy set and seek to maximize collective payoffs. When the payoffs…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-04-16 Justin Chan

We consider for the first time a stochastic generalized Nash equilibrium problem, i.e., with expected-value cost functions and joint feasibility constraints, under partial-decision information, meaning that the agents communicate only with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Barbara Franci , Sergio Grammatico

This article introduces a class of $Nash$ games among $Stackelberg$ players ($NASPs$), namely, a class of simultaneous non-cooperative games where the players solve sequential Stackelberg games. Specifically, each player solves a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Margarida Carvalho , Gabriele Dragotto , Felipe Feijoo , Andrea Lodi , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

It is known that individuals in social networks tend to exhibit homophily (a.k.a. assortative mixing) in their social ties, which implies that they prefer bonding with others of their own kind. But what are the reasons for this phenomenon?…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Chen Avin , Hadassa Daltrophe , Zvi Lotker , David Peleg

We consider a class of Wasserstein distributionally robust Nash equilibrium problems, where agents construct heterogeneous data-driven Wasserstein ambiguity sets using private samples and radii, in line with their individual risk-averse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Georgios Pantazis , Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani , Sergio Grammatico