Generalized Nash equilibrium problems

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 177-211

  Facchinei, Francisco ^a   Kanzow, Christian ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coupled constraints; Existence; Nash Equilibrium Problem; Pseudo game; Social equilibrium; Solution algorithm; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 76749125765     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0653-x     Document Type: Article

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