TY - UNPB
T1 - The Stackelberg game
T2 - responses to regular strategies
AU - Byrne, Thomas
N1 - This document contains exclusively Chapter 5 of the author's PhD thesis titled 'Facility Location Problems and Games'. Besides the page numbering, the chapter is reproduced here in its entirety and appears identically to how it appears in the thesis. This document serves to act as a reference chapter
PY - 2022/11/11
Y1 - 2022/11/11
N2 - Following the solution to the One-Round Voronoi Game in arXiv:2011.13275, we naturally may want to consider similar games based upon the competitive locating of points and subsequent dividing of territories. In order to appease the tears of White (the first player) after they have potentially been tricked into going first in a game of point-placement, an alternative game (or rather, an extension of the Voronoi game) is the Stackelberg game where all is not lost if Black (the second player) gains over half of the contested area. It turns out that plenty of results can be transferred from One-Round Voronoi Game and what remains to be explored for the Stackelberg game is how best White can mitigate the damage of Black's placements. Since significant weaknesses in certain arrangements were outlined in arXiv:2011.13275, we shall first consider arrangements that still satisfy these results (namely, White plays a certain grid arrangement) and then explore how Black can best exploit these positions.
AB - Following the solution to the One-Round Voronoi Game in arXiv:2011.13275, we naturally may want to consider similar games based upon the competitive locating of points and subsequent dividing of territories. In order to appease the tears of White (the first player) after they have potentially been tricked into going first in a game of point-placement, an alternative game (or rather, an extension of the Voronoi game) is the Stackelberg game where all is not lost if Black (the second player) gains over half of the contested area. It turns out that plenty of results can be transferred from One-Round Voronoi Game and what remains to be explored for the Stackelberg game is how best White can mitigate the damage of Black's placements. Since significant weaknesses in certain arrangements were outlined in arXiv:2011.13275, we shall first consider arrangements that still satisfy these results (namely, White plays a certain grid arrangement) and then explore how Black can best exploit these positions.
KW - Stackelberg game
KW - games
KW - Voronoi game
KW - facility location problems
KW - strategies
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13275
U2 - 10.48550/arXiv.2211.06472
DO - 10.48550/arXiv.2211.06472
M3 - Working Paper/Preprint
BT - The Stackelberg game
CY - Ithaca, NY
ER -