Cooperative and uncooperative institution designs: Surprises and problems in open-source game theory

Understand

It is increasingly possible for real-world agents, such as software-based agents or human institutions, to view the internal programming of other such agents that they interact with.

• For instance, a company can read the bylaws of another company, or one software system can read the source code of another.
• Game-theoretic equilibria between the designers of such agents are called \emph{program equilibria}, and we call this area \emph{open-source game theory}.
• In this work we demonstrate a series of counterintuitive results on open-source games, which are independent of the programming language in which agents are written.