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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Network Games"”.
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Security in network games
… a game between an alert and a worm over a large network. We show, for this game, that it is possible to design an algorithm for the alerts that can prevent any worm from infecting more than a vanishingly small fraction of the nodes with high probability. Critical to our result is designing a …
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Selfish versus coordinated routing in network games
A common assumption in network optimization models is that a central authority controls the whole system. However, in some applications there are independent users, and assuming that they will follow directions given by an authority is not realistic. Individuals will only accept directives if they …
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Strategic Stochastic Coordination and Learning In Regular Network Games
… systems, such as robotic, social and economic networks, allowing the execution of tasks that would be impossible by individual agents. This thesis addresses two problems in stochastic coordination where each agent make decisions strategically, taking into account the decisions of its neighbors …
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Linear and Nonlinear Pricing for Network Games With Complete and Incomplete Information
… pricing policy design for a monopolistic network service provider with various types of public and private information on user types. In the communication network pricing literature, it is the linear pricing schemes that have been largely adopted, and here we investigate both linear and …
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Information and Incentives in Online Platforms
… platforms in three settings: traffic routing, network games, and competition between streaming platforms. In the first part of this thesis, Chapters 2 and 3, we study game play in routing and network games, where it is reasonable to assume agents do not originally know their payoff functions. …
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Social Influence and Personal Norms in Networks with Strategic Complementarities
This thesis studies effort choice and dynamics in games on a fixed social network with strategic complementarities. The three chapters of the thesis discuss different aspects of the social influence present in networks and affecting effort choices of the players. Chapter 1 presents a model of …
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Topics in Dynamic programming and Economic Networks
… monetary policies. Complementing this, economic networks stand as another critical tool, recognising the dynamic interactions among a multitude of diverse agents. The network models provide a comprehensive analysis of how individual agent behaviours, incentives, and strategic interactions …
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Topics in Dynamic programming and Economic Networks
… monetary policies. Complementing this, economic networks stand as another critical tool, recognising the dynamic interactions among a multitude of diverse agents. The network models provide a comprehensive analysis of how individual agent behaviours, incentives, and strategic interactions …
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Distributed virtual environment scalability and security
… than 20 years. The most widely deployed DVEs are network games such as Quake, Halo, and World of Warcraft (WoW), with millions of users and billions of dollars in annual revenue. Deployed DVEs remain expensive centralized implementations despite significant research outlining ways to distribute …
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Parametric computation of equilibria and flows
Network flows can be used to model numerous real world applications, such as flows in physical networks like electrical, gas, or water networks, flows in traffic networks, or flows of goods in logistic networks. More precisely, many of these applications can be modeled either as minimum cost flows …
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Accuracy-aware privacy mechanisms for distributed computation
"Distributed computing systems involve a network of devices or agents that use locally stored private information to solve a common problem. Distributed algorithms fundamentally require communication between devices leaving the system vulnerable to ""privacy attacks"" perpetrated by adversarial …
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Malay women’s identity construction and engagement with The Sims Social in Facebook
This thesis encapsulates how Malay women engage with globalisation and modernity through Western, more specifically American media. Through examining online gaming and platforms, this study demonstrates that these women negotiate the clash of sociocultural values with a variety of strategies. The …
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Information spread in networks: games, optimal control, and stabilization
… mechanisms for controlling information spread in networks. We consider two models for information spread. The first one is the well-known distributed averaging dynamics. The second model is a nonlinear one that describes virus spread in computer and biological networks. We seek to design optimal, …