DocumentCode
3180189
Title
Dynamic stochastic games with asymmetric information
Author
Nayyar, Ashutosh ; Basar, Tamer
Author_Institution
Coordinated Sci. Lab., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
fYear
2012
fDate
10-13 Dec. 2012
Firstpage
7145
Lastpage
7150
Abstract
We consider a dynamic stochastic game with asymmetric information. Multiple controllers jointly control the evolution of a global state process and multiple local state processes. The global state affects every controller´s cost while a controller´s local state only affects its own cost. We assume that all controllers observe the global state, and in addition each controller observes its own local state. This information structure results in asymmetry of information among the controllers. In general, such asymmetry of information makes it difficult to find or characterize Nash equilibria. However, we show that a simple characterization of a class of Nash equilibria is possible under the assumption that the evolution of the local state processes depends only on the global state and control actions and not on the current or past values of local states. This class of equilibria and their characterization resemble the notion of Markov equilibrium and their characterization in games of symmetric information.
Keywords
Markov processes; control system analysis; stochastic games; Markov equilibrium; Nash equilibria; asymmetric information; control actions; dynamic stochastic games; global state process evolution; information asymmetry; multiple control; multiple local state process evolution; symmetric information games; Aerospace electronics; Games; Markov processes; Nash equilibrium; Process control; Random variables; Vectors;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Decision and Control (CDC), 2012 IEEE 51st Annual Conference on
Conference_Location
Maui, HI
ISSN
0743-1546
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-2065-8
Electronic_ISBN
0743-1546
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CDC.2012.6426857
Filename
6426857
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