Selected Publications of Fioravante PATRONE

[1] On the Optimal Control for Variational Inequalities, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 22, 373-388, (1977).

[2] Sulla densità e genericità di alcuni problemi di minimo ben posti", Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Serie V, 15-B, 225-240, (1978); in collaboration with R. Lucchetti.

[3] On Nemytskii's Operator and its Application to the Lower Semicontinuity of Integral Functionals, Indiana University Mathematics Journal, 29, 703-713, (1980); in collaboration with R. Lucchetti.

[4] A Characterization of Tyhonov Well-Posedness for Minimum Problems, with Applications to Variational Inequalities, Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, 3, 461-476, (1981); in collaboration with R. Lucchetti.

[5] Hadamard and Tyhonov Well-Posedness of a Certain Class of Convex Functions, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 88, 204-215, (1982); in collaboration with R. Lucchetti.

[6] Determinateness of Two-Person Games, Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, 5-B, 907-924, (1986); in collaboration with R. Lucchetti and S. Tijs.

[7] Closure and upper semicontinuity resulsts in mathematical programming, Nash and economic equilibria, Optimization, 17, 619-628, (1986); in collaboration with R. Lucchetti.

[8] Most Convex Functions are Nice, Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, 9, 359-369, (1987).

[9] Unified Approach to Approximate Solutions in Games and Multiobjective Programming, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 52, 273-278, (1987); in collaboration with S. Tijs.

[10] Well-Posedness as an Ordinal Property, Rivista di Matematica pura ed applicata, 1, 95-104, (1987).

[11] Convergence and Approximation Results for Measurable Multifunctions, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 100, 551-556, (1987); in collaboration with R. Lucchetti and N.S. Papageorgiou.

[12] Lambda-transfer and Harsanyi NTU-values: individual rationality, stability and degenerate solutions, Cahiers du CERO, 33, 103-121, (1991); in collaboration with R. Lucchetti, S. Tijs and A. Torre.

[13] Constrained minimum problems for preorders: Tikhonov and Hadamard well-posedness, Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Serie VII, 5-B, 639-652, (1991); in collaboration with J. Revalski.

[14] Well-Posedness for Nash Equilibria and Related Topics, in Recent Developments in Well- Posed Variational Problems (R. Lucchetti and J. Revalski editors), Kluwer, Dordrecht, (1995), 211-228.

[15] A New Approach to Tikhonov Well-Posedness for Nash Equilibria, Optimization, 40, 385-400, (1997); in collaboration with M. Margiocco and L Pusillo. abstract.

[16] On Consistent Solutions for Strategic Games, International Journal of Game Theory, 27, 191-200, (1998); in collaboration with G. Pieri, S. Tijs and A. Torre. abstract.

[17] Metric characterizations of Tikhonov well posedness in value, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 100, 377-388, (1999); in collaboration with M. Margiocco and L. Pusillo. abstract.

[18] Balanced Games arising from infinite linear models, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 50, No. 3, 1999; in collaboration with F. Fragnelli, E. Sideri and S.Tijs. abstract.

[19] Characterizing Properties of Approximate Solutions for Optimization Problems, Mathematical Social Sciences, 40, 297-311, (2000); in collaboration with H. Norde and S. Tijs. abstract.

[20] How to Share Railways Infrastructure Costs?, in: "Game Practice: Contributions from Applied Game Theory" (editors: F. Patrone, I. García-Jurado, S. Tijs), Kluwer, Dordrecht, (2000); in collaboration with V. Fragnelli, I. García-Jurado, H. Norde and S.Tijs. abstract.

[21] Game Practice: Contributions from Applied Game Theory, editor: Kluwer, Dordrecht, (2000); in collaboration with I. García-Jurado and S.Tijs. TOC and preface.

[22] Unilateral Commitments and Finitely Repeated Games, International Game Theory Review, 2 129-139, (2000); in collaboration with I. García-Jurado and L. Mendez-Naya. introduction.

[23] Axiomatization for Approximate Solutions in Optimization, in "Equilibrium Problems: Nonsmooth Optimization and Variational Inequality Models", Giannessi, Maugeri and Pardalos eds., Kluwer, Dordrecht, (2001); in collaboration with H. Norde and S. Tijs. abstract.

[24] Balancedness of Infrastructure Cost Games, European Journal of Operational Research, 136, 635-654, (2002); in collaboration with H. Norde, V. Fragnelli, I. García-Jurado and S. Tijs. abstract.

[25] A Potential Approach for Ordinal Games, Top, 9, 69-75, (2002); in collaboration with H. Norde. abstract.

[26] On Tikhonov well-posedness of concave games and Cournot oligopoly, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 112, 361-379, (2002); in collaboration with M. Margiocco and L. Pusillo. abstract.

[27] Cost Allocation Games with Information Costs, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 59(3), 419-434, (2004); in collaboration with S. Moretti abstract.

[28] Designing and Implementing Electronic Auctions in a Multiagent System Environment, WOA 2005: Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti. Flavio Corradini, Flavio De Paoli, Emanuela Merelli, Andrea Omicini (Eds.), 6th AI*IA/TABOO Joint Workshop "From Objects to Agents": Simulation and Formal Analysis of Complex Systems :157-163 , 2005; in collaboration with D. Roggero and V. Mascardi.

[29] The Nucleolus Is Well-Posed, Journal of Mathematical Analysis And Applications, 314, 412-422, (2006); in collaboration with V. Fragnelli and A. Torre abstract.

[30] Application of Stochastic Cooperative Games in Water Resources, "Frontiers in Water Resource Economics", Edited by R. Goetz and D. Berga (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Series: Natural Resource Management and Policy, Vol. 29:XXI + 275 (ISBN: 0-387-30055-4), 2006.; in collaboration with A. Dinar, S. Moretti and S. Zara abstract.

[31] Stackelberg problems: Subgame Perfect Equilibria via Tikhonov regularization,in "Advances in Dynamic Games: Applications to Economics, Management Science, Engineering, and Environmental Management", edited by Alain Haurie, Shigeo Muto, Leon A. Petrosjan, and T.E.S. Raghavan, Birkhauser, Boston, 2006; in collaboration with J. Morgan introduction.

[32] Individuazione dei parametri rilevanti per la definizione di una tariffa unificata per l'accesso all'infrastruttura ferroviaria in ambito europeo, 2004 (presentato alla VII Riunione Scientifica della Società degli Economisti dei Trasporti, 2004); in "I trasporti e l'Europa" (Eds. G.Polidori, E.Musso, E.Marcucci) : 89-102, Franco Angeli, Milano (I), 2006; in collaboration with V. Fragnelli and S. Sanguineti.

[33] Cooperative Game Theory and its Application to Natural, Environmental, and Water Resource Issues: Basic Theory by Irene Parrachino, Stefano Zara, and Fioravante Patrone. The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper no. WPS 4072 or directly download

[34] Cooperative Game Theory and its Application to Natural, Environmental, and Water Resource Issues: Application to Natural and Environmental Resources by Stefano Zara, Ariel Dinar, and Fioravante Patrone. The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper no. WPS 4073 or directly download
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[35] Cooperative Game Theory and its Application to Natural, Environmental, and Water Resource Issues: Application to Water Resources by Irene Parrachino, Ariel Dinar, and Fioravante Patrone. The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper no. WPS 4074 or directly download

[36] Water Allocation Strategies for the Kat Basin in South Africa: Comparing Negotiation Tools and Game Theory Models by Ariel Dinar, Stefano Farolfi, Fioravante Patrone, and Kate Rowntree. The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper no. WPS 4083 or directly download

[37] The class of Microarray games and the relevance index for genes , Top, 15, no. 2, 256-280, 2007. on line, presented at the VI Spanish Meeting on Game Theory and Practice, July 12-14, 2004, Elche, Spain; in collaboration with S. Moretti and S. Bonassi.

[38] Multicriteria Games and Potentials , Top, 15, no. 1, 138-145, 2007. In collaboration with Lucia Pusillo and Stef Tijs. on line

[39] Axiomatic approach to approximate solutions in vector optimization, Decisions in Economics and Finance, Volume 31, Number 2 / November, 2008. In collaboration with E. Miglierina, E. Molho and S. Tijs. 2008.

[40] Share Opportunity Sets and Cooperative Games , International Game Theory Review, 10 (no. 2, June 2008), 205-218. In collaboration with E. Caprari, L. Pusillo, S. Tijs, A. Torre. 2008.
Available online.

[41] To negotiate or to game theorize: negotiation vs. game theory outcomes for water allocation problems in the Kat Basin, South Africa. In: “Game Theory and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environment” (editors: A. Dinar, J. Albiac, and J. Sánchez-Soriano), Routledge. In collaboration with A. Dinar, S. Farolfi, and K. Rowntree. 2008.

[42] Transversality of the Shapley value , Top, 16, no. 1, 1-41, July 2008. Invited paper. (From pages 42 to 59, the comments by Vito Fragnelli, Michel Grabisch, Claus-Jochen Haake, Ignacio García-Jurado, Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano, Stef Tijs; our rejoinder at pages 60-61). In collaboration with Stefano Moretti. Available online.
The introduction is avaiilable, in pdf.

[43] Incentive compatibility in kidney exchange problems , Health Care Management Science. Volume 12, Number 4, Pages 351-362, December, 2009. Available online. See web page of the journal.
In collaboration with S. Villa. 2008.

[44] Combining Shapley value and statistics to the analysis of gene expression data in children exposed to air pollution , BMC Bioinformatics, 9, 361. In collaboration with: S. Moretti, D. van Leeuwen, H. Gmuender, S. Bonassi, J. van Delft, J. Kleinjans, D. F. Merlo. 2008. See: the paper, freely available from the web page of the journal.

[45] Does game theory have a role to play in policy making in natural resources and the environment? , International Game Theory Review, 10, 221-228, (2008). Peface to the special issue on Game Theoretic Analysis in Natural Resources and the Environment. In collaboration with A. Dinar and J. Sanchez-Soriano.

[46] A virtual enterprise multi-agent model to support VDO decision making . To appear on the proceedings of the 9th MITIP (The Modern Information Technology in the Innovation Processes of the Industrial Enterprises). In collaboration with A. Grosso, R. Revetria, F. Tonelli. 2007.

[47] ClubMED: Coordinated Multi-Exit Discriminator Strategies for Peering Carriers, EURO-NGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks. In collaboration with S. Secci, J.-L.s Rougier, A. Pattavina, G. Maier. 2009
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In "Next Generation Internet Networks, 2009". (NGI '09). Publication Date: 1-3 July 2009, Pages: 196-203

[48] Organ donation: an exercise on organizing self-regarding behavior? Submitted. In collaboration with S. Villa. 2008

[49] Essentializing Equilibrium Concepts , to appear on Int. Journal Game Theory. In collaboration with J. González-Díaz, F. Briata, and I. García-Jurado. 2008.

[50] Sharing water at catchment level: the impact of context on cooperative game solutions , presented at the 13th IWRA World Water Congress 2008, Montpellier, 1-4 September 2008. In collaboration with: M. Désolé, S. Farolfi, P. Rio, M. Tidball, S. Thoyer

[51] PEMP: Peering Equilibrium MultiPath routing, IEEE Globecom 2009 Communications Quality of Service, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium (GC'09 CQRPM).
Proc. of 2009 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2009), 30 Nov. - 4 Dec. 2009, Honolulu, USA.
In collaboration with S. Secci, J.-L.s Rougier, A. Pattavina, G. Maier. 2009.

[52] From Experience to Experiments in South African Water Management: Defining the Framework Preprint, LAMETA, DR n°2009-24 In collaboration with M. Desole, S. Farolfi, P. Rio

[53] The Shapley and Banzhaf values in microarray games, Computers & Operations Research, Volume 37, Issue 8. In collaboration with R. Lucchetti, S. Moretti, P. Radrizzani. 2010
Available online: see web page of the journal .
Computers and Operations Research, Volume 37, Issue 8, Pages: 1406-1412, August 2010.

[54] Basics of Game Theory for Bioinformatics, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6160, pp. 165-178, 2010; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14571-1.
Proceedings of the 2009 CIBB Conference: Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, 6th International Meeting, CIBB 2009, Genoa, Italy, October 15-17, 2009, Revised Selected Papers 2010.
Tutorial for the 2009 CIBB Conference Available here: Basics of Game Theory for Bioinformatics .

[55] Variable-Sum Games, to appear.
Prepared for the SAGE Reference project Encyclopedia of Power.

[56] Using coalitional games on biological networks to measure centrality and power of genes, Bioinformatics, Volume 26 Issue 21 November 1, 2010, 2721-2730.
In collaboration with S. Moretti, V. Fragnelli, S. Bonassi.
Available online (full paper requires subscription): Using coalitional games on biological networks to measure centrality and power of genes .

[57] Peering Equilibrium Multipath Routing: A Game Theory Framework for Internet Peering Settlements, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 19, Issue 2, 419-432, 2010.
In collaboration with S. Secci, J.-L. Rougier, A. Pattavina, G. Maier.
Available here: Peering Equilibrium Multipath Routing: A Game Theory Framework for Internet Peering Settlements .

[58] L'abbc dei problemi decisionali, in Un mondo di idee, I blu, 251-247, 2011.
Available here .

[59] Comment on: Cooperative games and cost allocation problems , Top, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s11750-011-0202-z. Available on line.

[60] Multi-exit discriminator game for BGP routing coordination , Telecommunication Systems, Volume 48, Issue 1, 77-92, 2011.
In collaboration with S. Secci, J.-L. Rougier, A. Pattavina, G. Maier.

[61] Sharing the Costs of Complex Water Projects:
Application to the West Delta Water Conservation and Irrigation Rehabilitation Project, Egypt ,
Games, Volume 7, 2016.
In collaboration with S. Moretti, A. Dinar, S. Abdel-Dayem.  .
Available here.

[62] Wireless Theory for Superblocks, preprint.
Available here: Wireless Theory for Superblocks .

Books:

Decisori (razionali) interagenti: Una introduzione alla teoria dei giochi. Edizioni plus, Pisa, 2006.
See also the web page "companion" of the book. With notes, software, applets, links.

Modelli e strumenti innovativi per la gestione di network di imprese , Edizioni Anteo, Perugia. In collaboration with: P. Lunghi, F. Tonelli, R. Rinaldi, P. Taticchi, M. Botarelli, L. Cagnazzo, R. Bandinelli, L. Cellesi, A. Grosso, M. Brilli, M. Ginocchietti. 2008.

Academic Publications Glossary, da Mike Shor.

Last update: 17 September 2011