Networking Games. Network Forming Games and Games on Networks

Table of Contents

1. Nash Equilibrium 2. Congestion Games 3. Routing Games 4. The Load Balancing Game 5. The Cover Game 6. Networks and Graphs 7. Social Networks 8. Games on Transport Networks 9. Models of the Transport Services Market 10. Games with Flows of Requests in the Queuing System

Authors

Vladimir Mazalov Russian Academy of Sciences. Vladimir V. Mazalov educated at the Leningrad (Sankt-Petersburg) University in 1976, in the department of applied mathematics and processes of control. Since earning his Ph.D. in 1980, he has worked principally on research projects funded by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Between 1980-98 he worked at the Chita Institute of Natural Recourses, East Siberia and currently serves as Research Drector of the Institute of Applied Mathematical Research, Karelia Research Center of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also a Professor in the Probability Theory Department of Petrozavodsk State University and is the author of 150 articles and 5 books. Julia V. Chirkova Russian Academy of Sciences. Julia V. Chirkova graduated from the mathematical faculty of the Petrozavodsk State University in 2003. In 2007 she defended her Ph.D. thesis on "Networking Games and Resource Allocation." Her research interests include optimization of use and resource distribution networks using game theoretic approach. She has written 30 scientific articles in this field.