The paper explores a game-theoretic model of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of bureaucrats. Each entrepreneur’s project is approved if and only if it is cleared by each bureaucrat. The project value is stochastic; its value is observed only by the entrepreneur, but its distribution is common knowledge. Each bureaucrat clears the project only if a bribe is pai...

We investigate some well known graph theoretic problems from a game theoretic point of view. To coloring and matching problems we associate binary payoff games where the players are the vertices of the graph. Solutions to the graph problems correspond to action profiles of the game, where all players get payoff 1. We show, that there exist rules for the choice of action in the repeated play of ...

The quantity of information that is collected and stored in computer systems continues to grow rapidly. At the same time, the sensitivity of such information (e.g., detailed medical records) often makes such information valuable to both external attackers, who may obtain information by compromising a system, and malicious insiders, who may misuse information by exercising their authorization. T...

In this project, bridging entropy econometrics, game theory and information theory, a game theoretic approach will be investigated to quantum information, during which new mathematical definitions for quantum relative entropy, quantummutual information, and quantum channel capacity will be given and monotonicity of entangled quantum relative entropy and additivity of quantum channel capacity wi...

In this study, the social welfare impacts of the interaction of Iranian rice import policies and Thai export policies are analyzed using a game theoretic approach in conjunction with econometric supply and demand models. The joint impacts of increasing the world price of rice, resulting from the export policies in Thailand along with changes in tariff rates in Iran, on social welfare are analyz...

The paper describes a comprehensive evaluation of experiences with a production simulation game, the Logistics Game, conducted over more than 10 years with students and practitioners at the ETH Zurich. The objective of the game is to give insights on how to improve logistics performance. After an introduction to the theoretical background, the game is described and results of 72 groups are disc...

Frameworks for modeling the communication and coordination of subsystem stakeholders are valuable for the synthesis of large engineering systems. However, these frameworks can be resource intensive and challenging to implement. This paper compares three frameworks, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO), traditional Game Theory, and a Modified Game Theoretic approach on the form and flow o...

There has been a growing interest in decision and game theoretic approaches to networked system security as evidenced by the increasing number of publications and conferences such as the Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec). This presentation aims to give an overview on security games and their applications to network and critical infrastructure security based on the re...

This paper argues for a game-theoretic approach to content determination that uses text-type specific strategies in order to determine the optimal content for various user types. By means of content determination for the description of numerical data the benefits of a game-theoretic treatment of content determination are outlined.

Grid computing uses the resources of many separate computers connected by a network to solve large-scale computation problems. In this survey, four Grid Computing systems that have a game theoretic approach in processor scheduling have been described. An analysis and comparison of these systems in terms of several important game theoretic attributes has been presented.