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Interactive decisions and potential games

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The aim of this contribution is an overview on Potential Games. This class of games is special, in fact we can investigate their properties by a unique function: the potential function. We consider several types of potential games: exact, ordinal, bayesian and hierarchical. Some results are generalized to multicriteria decisions.

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Pusillo, L. Interactive decisions and potential games. J Glob Optim 40, 339–352 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10898-007-9209-2

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