Cooperative vs non-cooperative truels: little agreement, but does that matter?

Cooperative vs non-cooperative truels: little agreement, but does that matter?

It is well-known that non-cooperative and cooperative game theory may yield different solutions to games. These differences are particularly dramatic in the case of truels, or threeperson duels, in which the players may fire sequentially or simultaneously, and the games may be one-round or n-round. Thus, it is never a Nash equilibrium for all players to hold their fire in any of these games, wh...

Cooperative Extension Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace: Does Race Matter?

Endogenous Parties: Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Analysis

In Levy (2004) I attempt to analyze whether political parties are effective. That is, whether they change the political outcome relative to the case in which they do not exist and candidates can only run independently. The main result shows that parties are not effective when the policy space is one dimensional but may become effective when the policy space has more than one dimension. To deriv...

Non-Cooperative and Semi-Cooperative Differential Games

In this paper we review some recent results on non-cooperative and semicooperative differential games. For the n-person non-cooperative games in one-space dimension, we consider the Nash equilibrium solutions. When the system of Hamilton-Jacobi equations for the value functions is strictly hyperbolic, we show that the weak solution of a corresponding system of hyperbolic conservation laws deter...

Cooperative search vs classical algorithms

We have presented, in a previous work ([15]), a cooperative parallel search for solving the constraint satisfaction problem. We run independently solvers based on Forward-Checking with Nogood Recording. The solvers exchange nogoods via a process (”the manager of nogoods”) which regulates the exchanges. Solvers exploit the nogoods they receive to limit the size of their search tree. Experimental...