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Publications

Section titled “Publications”

This page lists academic publications related to Coopetition Gym and strategic coopetition research.

Core Publications

Section titled “Core Publications”

Coopetition Gym

Section titled “Coopetition Gym”

Coming soon — Paper introducing the Coopetition Gym library and validation results.

Section titled “Related Research by Vik Pant”

Multi-Agent Systems

Section titled “Multi-Agent Systems”

Vik Pant’s research on multi-agent systems and strategic coopetition forms the theoretical foundation for this library.

  • PhD Thesis: University of Toronto, Faculty of Information
  • Focus: Goal-oriented requirements engineering, multi-agent systems, game theory

Selected Publications

Section titled “Selected Publications”

For a complete list of Vik Pant’s publications, see vikpant.com/research.

Foundational Literature

Section titled “Foundational Literature”

Coopetition Theory

Section titled “Coopetition Theory”

  1. Brandenburger, A. M., & Nalebuff, B. J. (1996). Co-opetition. Currency Doubleday.

    • Introduced coopetition to business strategy

  2. Bengtsson, M., & Kock, S. (2000). “Coopetition” in Business Networks. Industrial Marketing Management, 29(5), 411-426.

    • Formalized coopetition dynamics

Game Theory

Section titled “Game Theory”

  1. Axelrod, R. (1984). The Evolution of Cooperation. Basic Books.

    • Classic work on cooperation emergence

  2. Nowak, M. A. (2006). Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation. Science, 314(5805), 1560-1563.

    • Mathematical framework for cooperation

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Section titled “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning”

  1. Busoniu, L., Babuska, R., & De Schutter, B. (2008). A Comprehensive Survey of Multiagent Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 38(2), 156-172.

  2. Hernandez-Leal, P., Kartal, B., & Taylor, M. E. (2019). A Survey and Critique of Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 33(6), 750-797.

Using This Library in Research

Section titled “Using This Library in Research”

If you use Coopetition Gym in your research, please cite:

@software{coopetition_gym,
  title = {Coopetition Gym: Multi-Agent RL Environments for Coopetitive Dynamics},
  author = {Pant, Vik},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://github.com/vikpant/coopetition-gym}
}

Contributing

Section titled “Contributing”

We welcome contributions to the research base:

  1. Bug reports: Found an issue with an environment? Open an issue
  2. New environments: Have a game-theoretic scenario to add? See contribution guidelines
  3. Validation: Help validate environments against theoretical predictions

Contact

Section titled “Contact”

For research collaboration inquiries, contact Vik Pant at vikpant.com/contact.