• DocumentCode
    518286
  • Title

    Three-player Toppling Dominoes is NP-complete

  • Author

    Cincotti, Alessandro

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Inf. Sci., Japan Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Nomi, Japan
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-18 April 2010
  • Abstract
    In two player games players are in conflict to each other and coalitions are not allowed but in three-player games two players can join their efforts against the third player. As a result, cooperation is a key-factor that deeply affects the complexity of three-player games. In Toppling Dominoes, cooperation can be much more difficult than competition and, as a consequence, three-player Toppling Dominoes played on a set of rows of dominoes is NP-complete.
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; game theory; games of skill; NP-complete problem; three-player toppling dominoes; two player games; Computational complexity; Information science; Law; Legal factors; NP-complete problem; Tree graphs; combinatorial games; computational complexity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Engineering and Technology (ICCET), 2010 2nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chengdu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6347-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCET.2010.5485977
  • Filename
    5485977