8 papers
Move Over, Prisoner's Dilemma: Colonel Blotto has arrived
Keith Paarporn, Jason R. Marden
The Prisoner's Dilemma, zero-sum games, LQR team problems, and differential games have shaped game theory in controls for decades, but the field's most pressing adversarial challen…
Adverse Effects of V2V Adoption on Road Safety
Zhenqi Liu, Philip N. Brown, Keith Paarporn
Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is expected to improve road safety and reduce congestion. However, prior work shows that V2V information sharing under partial adoption may i…
Incentive Design in Competitive Resource Allocation: Exploiting Valuation Asymmetry in Tullock Contests
Gilberto Diaz-Garcia, Keith Paarporn, Jason R. Marden
In competitive resource allocation, a central coordinator may seek to gain an advantage not by directly controlling subordinate agents, but by strategically manipulating the inform…
Beyond Arbitrary Allocations: Security Values in Constrained General Lotto Games
Keith Paarporn, Jason R. Marden
Resource allocation problems across multiple contests are ubiquitous in adversarial settings, from military operations to market competition. While Colonel Blotto and General Lotto…
Allocation of Heterogeneous Resources in General Lotto Games
Keith Paarporn, Adel Aghajan, Jason R. Marden
The allocation of resources plays an important role in the completion of system objectives and tasks, especially in the presence of strategic adversaries. Optimal allocation strate…
The Value of Compromising Strategic Intent in General Lotto Games
Gilberto Diaz-Garcia, Keith Paarporn, Jason R. Marden
Resource allocation in adversarial environments is a fundamental challenge across various domains, from corporate competition to military strategy. This article examines the impact…