Dynamics at the Boundary of Game Theory and Distributed Computing
Abstract
We use ideas from distributed computing and game theory to study dynamic and decentralized environments in which computational nodes, or decision makers, interact strategically and with limited information. In such environments, which arise in many real-world settings, the participants act as both economic and computational entities. We exhibit a general non-convergence result for a broad class of dynamics in asynchronous settings. We consider implications of our result across a wide variety of interesting and timely applications: game dynamics, circuit design, social networks, Internet routing, and congestion control. We also study the computational and communication complexity of testing the convergence of asynchronous dynamics. Our work opens a new avenue for research at the intersection of distributed computing and game theory.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Aug 09, 2017
- Source ID
- 10.1145/3107182
Entities
People
- Aaron D. Jaggard
- Michael Schapira
- Neil Lutz
- Rebecca N. Wright
Organizations
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Israel Science Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- Rutgers University
- United States Naval Research Laboratory