Computing equilibria: a computational complexity perspective

DOI10.1007/S00199-009-0448-YzbMath1192.91035OpenAlexW2070377170MaRDI QIDQ847807

Tim Roughgarden

Publication date: 19 February 2010

Published in: Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-009-0448-y

zbMATH Keywords

computational complexitygame theoryNP-completenessNP-hardnessequilibrium computation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Abstract computational complexity for mathematical programming problems (90C60) Other game-theoretic models (91A40)

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Uses Software

• Concorde
• GAMUT

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