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      The complexity of decision problems about nash equilibria in win-lose games 

      Bilò, Vittorio; Mavronicolas, Marios (2012)
      We revisit the complexity of deciding, given a (finite) strategic game, whether Nash equilibria with certain natural properties exist
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      Complexity of rational and irrational Nash equilibria 

      Bilò, Vittorio; Mavronicolas, Marios (2011)
      We introduce two new decision problems, denoted as ∃ RATIONAL NASH and ∃ IRRATIONAL NASH, pertinent to the rationality and irrationality, respectively, of Nash equilibria for (finite) strategic games. These problems ask, ...
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      Complexity of rational and irrational nash equilibria 

      Bilò, Vittorio; Mavronicolas, Marios (2014)
      We introduce two new natural decision problems, denoted as ∃ RATIONAL NASH and ∃ IRRATIONAL NASH, pertinent to the rationality and irrationality, respectively, of Nash equilibria for (finite) strategic games. These problems ...
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      Minimizing Expectation Plus Variance 

      Mavronicolas, Marios; Monien, Burkhard (2015)
      We consider strategic games in which each player seeks a mixed strategy to minimize her cost evaluated by a concave valuationV (mapping probability distributions to reals)
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      Minimizing expectation plus variance 

      Mavronicolas, Marios; Monien, Burkhard (2012)
      We consider strategic games in which each player seeks a mixed strategy to minimize her cost evaluated by a concave valuation V (mapping probability distributions to reals)
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      A network game with attackers and a defender 

      Mavronicolas, Marios; Lesta, Vicky Papadopoulou; Philippou, Anna; Spirakis, Paul G. (2008)
      Consider an information network with threats called attackers
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      The price of defense and fractional matchings 

      Mavronicolas, Marios; Lesta, Vicky Papadopoulou; Persiano, Giuseppe; Philippou, Anna; Spirakis, Paul G. (2006)
      Consider a network vulnerable to security attacks and equipped with defense mechanisms. How much is the loss in the provided security guarantees due to the selfish nature of attacks and defenses? The Price of Defense was ...