Nash equilibria: The variational approach

Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communications

Volumn 9780521762229, Issue , 2009, Pages 443-493

  Facchinei, Francisco ^a   Pang, Jong Shi ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DEREGULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

FIXED POINT ITERATION; GAME-THEORETIC TOOLS; LOCAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; NON-COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION MARKET; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84926080626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511804458.013     Document Type: Chapter

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