Key research themes
1. How can game-theoretic and axiomatic approaches characterize value allocations in cooperative and coopetitive games?
This theme explores mathematical modeling and solution concepts for cooperative and coopetitive games, focusing on how players share collective gains based on fairness axioms and efficiency principles. It highlights newly proposed solution values and their characterizations through axioms, negotiation models, and productivity properties, serving as foundations for understanding cooperation and partial competition in game theory.
2. How do multi-interaction and multi-agent frameworks enhance cooperation through coordination and reciprocity in repeated or networked games?
This theme investigates models and empirical approaches where agents participate in multiple parallel interactions or repeated games without direct communication, exploring mechanisms for achieving coordinated cooperation despite selfish interests or asymmetric roles. It addresses theoretical and experimental findings on strategy development, collective intelligence, signaling, and communication dynamics that enable cooperation under complexity and uncertainty, including in distributed systems and multichannel interactions.
3. What roles do signaling, communication, and initial interactions play in fostering or hindering cooperation and coalition formation in competitive multiplayer settings?
This theme surveys how early-stage communication acts, signaling intentions, and initial contacts influence the emergence and stability of cooperative coalitions or teaming behavior in competitive environments such as free-for-all games or social dilemmas. It covers both philosophical analyses of cooperation-conversion mechanisms and empirical findings on how nonverbal signals and game design features impact player interaction dynamics, with implications for designing systems preventing unwanted collusion or promoting fair cooperation.