Equilibrium selection control for games with imperfect information and realization of dynamic mechanism design

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26630199
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Control engineering/System engineering
• Research Institution: The University of Electro-Communications
• Principal Investigator: Kogiso Kiminao 電気通信大学, 大学院情報理工学研究科, 准教授 (30379549)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ゲーム理論 / ベイジアンゲーム / 最適化理論 / フィードバック

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims to realize strategic decision-making control (control method to select Nash equilibrium) using the game theory model, based on feedback control represented by a control engineering approach. The achievements of this research are two methods: i) one is a method of altering a player’s utility, and ii) the other is a method of estimating the belief information that the player privately holds. In i) we presented a calculation method to achieve the desired Nash equilibrium for non-strategic decision-making (power market model) and strategic decision-making (snow drift game). In ii), we reduced uncertain decision making, called Bayesian game, to a feedback control design problem in which a strategy for achieving a desired Nash equilibrium is derived from the belief estimate.

Free Research Field

制御理論