Title
A payoff-based learning procedure and its application to traffic games
Abstract
A stochastic process that describes a payoff-based learning procedure and the associated adaptive behavior of players in a repeated game is considered. The process is shown to converge almost surely towards a stationary state which is characterized as an equilibrium for a related game. The analysis is based on techniques borrowed from the theory of stochastic algorithms and proceeds by studying an associated continuous dynamical system which represents the evolution of the players' evaluations. An application to the case of finitely many users in a congested traffic network with parallel links is considered. Alternative descriptions for the dynamics and the corresponding rest points are discussed, including a Lagrangian representation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.geb.2008.11.012
Games and Economic Behavior
Keywords
Field
DocType
Games,Learning,Adaptive dynamics,Stochastic algorithms,Congestion games
Combinatorial game theory,Mathematical optimization,Mathematical economics,Stochastic process,Repeated game,Almost surely,Sequential game,Example of a game without a value,Dynamical system,Mathematics,Stochastic game
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
70
1
0899-8256
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
35
1.52
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto Cominetti117021.27
Emerson Melo2372.24
Sylvain Sorin330049.48