12 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…
Learning Empirical Evidence Equilibria under Weak Environmental Coupling
Aya Hamed, Jason R. Marden, Jeff S. Shamma
Strategic multi-agent systems are fundamentally characterized by decentralization, uncertainty, and ambiguity. Agents operating under limited observations will often need to make d…
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…
Dynamic Adversarial Resource Allocation: the dDAB Game
Yue Guan, Daigo Shishika, Jason R. Marden +3
This work introduces the dynamic Defender-Attacker Blotto (dDAB) game, extending the classical static Blotto game to a dynamic resource allocation setting over graphs. In the dDAB…
Alliance Mechanisms in General Lotto Games
Vade Shah, Jason R. Marden
How do different alliance mechanisms compare? In this work, we analyze various methods of forming an alliance in the Coalitional General Lotto game, a simple model of competitive r…