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Coopetitive games

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Coopetitive games are strategic interactions where players simultaneously cooperate and compete, aiming to maximize their own benefits while also considering the potential advantages of collaboration. This framework blends elements of cooperative game theory and non-cooperative game theory, analyzing how entities can achieve optimal outcomes through both competitive and cooperative strategies.
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Coopetitive games are strategic interactions where players simultaneously cooperate and compete, aiming to maximize their own benefits while also considering the potential advantages of collaboration. This framework blends elements of cooperative game theory and non-cooperative game theory, analyzing how entities can achieve optimal outcomes through both competitive and cooperative strategies.

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.

Key finding: Introduced the Equal Collective Gains (ECG) value, a novel solution concept characterized by efficiency and equal benefit distribution from others' contributions, distinct from existing values like the Shapley and ENSC... Read more
Key finding: Developed an original analytical model formalizing coopetitive games where players simultaneously cooperate and compete. The model includes new solution concepts based on sophisticated bargaining solutions within rational... Read more
Key finding: Extended prior frameworks on parameterized collections of games and economies with clubs to analyze cooperative games with side payments, illustrating convergence of core allocations to competitive equilibria in large games.... Read more

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.

Key finding: Proposed an efficient rational strategy for agents in the co-action minority game to reach a cyclic state where all agents maximize long-term payoffs equally, despite no direct communication. The coordination is achieved... Read more
Key finding: Introduced a multichannel game framework where individuals simultaneously engage in multiple repeated games, showing analytically and via evolutionary simulations that strategic linkage of behaviors across channels greatly... Read more
Key finding: Developed a method for cooperation in an environment with repeated but distinct random normal form games between the same agents, where traditional strategies like Tit-for-Tat are inapplicable. By parameterizing players'... Read more
Key finding: Empirically investigated how verbal and behavioral coordination emerges in hierarchical multiplayer teams with asymmetric knowledge roles within cooperative video games. Using recurrence quantification analysis on... Read more

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.

Key finding: Demonstrated through economic game experiments that temporary teaming behavior emerges in free-for-all settings when early-stage signaling of cooperative intent is both sent and received effectively. Early non-verbal cues... Read more
Key finding: Proposes a distributed model of how competitive interactions in games can transform into cooperation through a combination of player consent, temperamental compatibilities, game design features, and psychological factors... Read more
Key finding: Systematically distinguished and formalized multiple forms of agent interactions—correlation, coordination, cooperation, competition, collaboration—using information-theoretic measures such as mutual information and... Read more

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, to withdraw the United States of America from the COP21 Paris agreement caused a deep change in the environmental scenarios of the global economy, which risks moving away from the virtuous path of a green economy. The major conclusion... more
This paper provides a coopetitive model for a global green economy, taking into account the environmental sustainability. In particular, we propose a differentiable coopetitive game G (in the sense recently introduced by D. Carfì) to... more
This paper provides a coopetitive model for a global green economy, taking into account the environmental sustainability. In particular, we propose a differentiable coopetitive game G (in the sense recently introduced by D. Carfì) to... more
, to withdraw the United States of America from the COP21 Paris agreement caused a deep change in the environmental scenarios of the global economy, which risks moving away from the virtuous path of a green economy. The major conclusion... more
Abstract. In this paper we show how the study of asymmetric R&D alliances, that are those between young and small firms and large and MNEs firms for knowledge exploration and/or exploitation, requires the adoption of a coopetitive... more
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