Article ID: | iaor20131061 |
Volume: | 227 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 1 |
End Page Number: | 11 |
Publication Date: | May 2013 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Castellani Marco, Pappalardo Massimo, Bigi Giancarlo, Passacantando Mauro |
Keywords: | network equilibrium |
Equilibrium problems provide a mathematical framework which includes optimization, variational inequalities, fixed‐point and saddle point problems, and noncooperative games as particular cases. This general format received an increasing interest in the last decade mainly because many theoretical and algorithmic results developed for one of these models can be often extended to the others through the unifying language provided by this common format. This survey paper aims at covering the main results concerning the existence of equilibria and the solution methods for finding them.