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In this article we present the application of the Differential Evolution algorithm to the problem of finding optimal strategies in the covariant games. Covariant game is the class of games in the normal form, in which there is at least one Nash equilibrium, and some payoffs of players may be in some way correlated. We used the concept, that there is possibility, that the approximate solution of the game exists, when players use only the small subset of strategies. The Differential Evolution algorithm is presented as the multi-start method, in which sampling of the solution is used. If preliminary estimation of the solution is not satisfactory, the new subset of strategies for all players is selected and the new population of individuals is created.
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Juszczuk, P. (2015). Multi-start Differential Evolution Approach in the Process of Finding Equilibrium Points in the Covariant Games. In: Núñez, M., Nguyen, N., Camacho, D., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9330. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24306-1_14
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