The International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG) is an international non-profit, professional organization for the advancement of the theory of dynamic games.
History The ISDG was founded on August 9, 1990 in Helsinki, Finland, at the site of the 4th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications in the Helsinki University of Technology. ISDG is governed by an executive board chaired by a president. The first president of the society was professor Tamer Başar. In past years the presidents of ISDG were Tamer Başar 1990-1994 Alain Haurie 1994-1998 Pierre Bernhard 1998-2002 Georges Zaccour 2002-2006 Geert Jan Olsder 2006-2008 Leon Petrosyan 2008-2012 Michèle Breton 2012-2016 Vladimir Mazalov 2016-2022 Florian Wagener 2022-
The objectives of ISDG to promote and foster the development and applications of the theory of dynamic games. to disseminate scientific information through all conveniently adopted support services. ISDG achieves these goals by organizing or co-organizing symposia, conferences and workshops and publishing distinguished high-standard journals to establish links with the international scientific community and in particular with other societies dealing with game theory, optimization, decision analysis and dynamical systems.
ISDG publications Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games (series ed.: Tamer Başar; published by Birkhäuser) Dynamic Games and Applications (editor-in-chief: Georges Zaccour; published by Birkhäuser) International Game Theory Review (managing editor: David W. K. Yeung, editors: Hans Peters, Leon A. Petrosyan; published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.)
Isaacs Award The Executive Committee of the International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG) decided in 2003 to establish a prestigious prize to honor “outstanding contributions to the theory and applications of dynamic games.” This prize is awarded to two distinguished scholars at each ISDG symposium, beginning with the 2004 edition. The award is named after Rufus Isaacs., widely recognized as the founding father of differential games, whose pioneering work laid the foundation for modern dynamic game theory.
Rufus Isaacs' groundbreaking contributions, particularly his 1965 book "Differential Games," established core principles and methodologies that have profoundly influenced the field. The prize serves to celebrate and promote excellence in dynamic games research, encompassing a broad spectrum of areas, including differential games, stochastic games, evolutionary games, and their applications in economics, engineering, biology, and other domains. By awarding this prize, the ISDG aims to recognize scholars whose work has significantly advanced both theoretical understanding and practical applications of dynamic games, furthering Isaacs' legacy.The recipients of this prize are: 2004: Yu-Chi Ho & George Leitmann 2006: Nikolay Krasovskii & Wendell Fleming 2008: Pierre Bernhard & Alain Haurie 2010: Tamer Başar & Geert Jan Olsder 2012: Steffen Jørgensen & Karl Sigmund 2014: Eitan Altman & Leon Petrosyan 2016: Martino Bardi & Ross Cressman 2018: Andrzej S. Nowak & Georges Zaccour 2022: Pierre Cardaliaguet & Mabel Tidball 2024: Joel Brown & Roland Malhamé 2026: Gerhard Sorger & Sylvain Sorin
Tom Vincent Award The Tom Vincent Award was established in 2019 to honor contributors in the field of evolutionary game theory. The prize is named after Thomas L. Vincent.
2022 laureates Alan Scaramangas, Mark Broom, Graeme D. Ruxton, and Anna Rouviere Maria Kleshnina, Christian Hilbe, Štěpán Šimsa, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin A. Nowak
2024 laureates Krzysztof Argasinski and Ryszard Rudnicki
2026 laureates Solaleh Mohammadi, Xiang Gao, and Kaiqing Zhang
Other Awards The Executive Committee of the International Society of Dynamic Games on the meeting during the 18th ISDG Symposium established an award for the best paper prize presented by a young scholar at the Symposium (named after Nikolay Krasovskii)) and at the 21st ISDG Symposium decided to establish a prize to promote research in the field of dynamic game theory, excluding evolutionary games (named after Tamer Başar and Geert-Jan Olsder).
Krasovskii Young Scholar Award The recipients of this prize are:
David Evangelista (2018) Hicham Kouhkouh (2022) Mohammadreza Satouri (2024) Kailas Shankar Honasoge (2026)
Başar–Olsder Award The recipient of this prize is:
♣ Diogo Gomes and Melih Üçer(2026)
References
External links
Game Theory Society ISDG. Russian Chapter