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NASH EQUILIBRIUM STRATEGIES REVISITED IN SOFTWARE RELEASE GAMES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2020

Yasuhiro Saito  and
Tadashi Dohi Open the ORCID record for Tadashi Dohi [Opens in a new window]
Yasuhiro Saito
Affiliation:
Department of Maritime Safety Technology, Japan Coast Guard Academy, 5-1 Wakabacho, Kure Hiroshima737-0832, Japan E-mail: yasu-saito@jcga.ac.jp
Tadashi Dohi
Affiliation:
Department of Information Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima739-8527, Japan E-mail: dohi@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

A software release game was formulated by Zeephongsekul and Chiera [Zeephongsekul, P. & Chiera, C. (1995). Optimal software release policy based on a two-person game of timing. Journal of Applied Probability 32: 470–481] and was reconsidered by Dohi et al. [Dohi, T., Teraoka, Y., & Osaki, S. (2000). Software release games. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 105(2): 325–346] in a framework of two-person nonzero-sum games. In this paper, we further point out the faults in the above literature and revisit the Nash equilibrium strategies in the software release games from the viewpoints of both silent and noisy type of games. It is shown that the Nash equilibrium strategies in the silent and noisy of software release games exist under some parametric conditions.

Keywords

Nash equilibrium strategynoisy-type gamesilent-type gamesoftware release decisionsoftware reliabilitytwo-person nonzero-sum games
Type
Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 105 - 125
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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