Resource pricing games on graphs: Existence of Nash equilibria

Optimization Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 231-240

  Okaie, Yutaka ^a   Nakano, Tadashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Game theoretic modeling; Market economies; Mobile agents; Peer to peer networks; Resource pricing

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; GAME THEORY; MOBILE AGENTS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; HIERARCHICAL GRAPHS; MARKET ECONOMIES; NASH EQUILIBRIA; NON-COOPERATIVE; RESOURCE PRICING;

COSTS;

EID: 84873126747     PISSN: 18624472     EISSN: 18624480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11590-011-0411-2     Document Type: Article

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