Large-scale games in large-scale systems
Abstract
Many real-world problems modeled by stochastic games have huge state and/or action spaces, leading to the well-known curse of dimensionality. The complexity of the analysis of large-scale systems is dramatically reduced by exploiting mean field limit and dynamical system viewpoints. Under regularity assumptions and specific time-scaling techniques, the evolution of the mean field limit can be expressed in terms of deterministic or stochastic equation or inclusion (difference or differential). In this paper, we overview recent advances of large-scale games in large-scale systems. We focus in particular on population games, stochastic population games and mean field stochastic games. Considering long-term payoffs, we characterize the mean field systems using Bellman and Kolmogorov forward equations.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 2011
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1111.2285
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1111.2285
- Bibcode:
- 2011arXiv1111.2285T
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Systems and Control;
- Computer Science - Computer Science and Game Theory;
- Mathematical Physics;
- Mathematics - Dynamical Systems;
- Mathematics - Optimization and Control
- E-Print:
- 30 pages. Notes for the tutorial course on mean field stochastic games, March 2011