• DocumentCode
    6240
  • Title

    Distributed Tracking of Correlated Equilibria in Regime Switching Noncooperative Games

  • Author

    Namvar Gharehshiran, Omid ; Krishnamurthy, Vikram ; Yin, George

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Volume
    58
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Oct. 2013
  • Firstpage
    2435
  • Lastpage
    2450
  • Abstract
    We consider a class of regime-switching noncooperative repeated games where agents exchange information over a graph. The parameters of the game (number of agents, payoffs, information exchange graph) evolve randomly over time according to a Markov chain. We present a regret-based stochastic approximation algorithm with constant step-size that prescribes how individual agents update their randomized strategies over time. We show that, if the Markov chain jump changes on the same timescale as the adaptation rate of the stochastic approximation algorithm and agents independently follow this algorithm, their collective behavior is agile in tracking the time-varying convex polytope of correlated equilibria. The analysis is carried out using weak convergence methods and Lyapunov stability of switched Markovian differential inclusions.
  • Keywords
    Lyapunov methods; Markov processes; approximation theory; game theory; graph theory; multi-agent systems; stability; time-varying systems; Lyapunov stability; Markov chain jump; agent information exchange graph; correlated equilibria; distributed tracking; randomized strategies; regime-switching noncooperative repeated games; regret-based stochastic approximation algorithm; switched Markovian differential inclusions; time-varying convex polytope; Algorithm design and analysis; Approximation algorithms; Approximation methods; Games; Markov processes; Switches; Coordination in decision making; Lyapunov stability; Markov chain; correlated equilibrium; noncooperative game; regime-switching differential inclusion; stochastic approximation; tracking;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9286
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAC.2013.2256684
  • Filename
    6493402