A Study of Misinformation Games.

A common assumption in game theory is that players have a common and correct (albeit not always complete) knowledge with regards to the abstract formulation of the game. However, in many real-world situations it could be the case that (some of) the players are misinformed with regards to the game that they play, essentially having an incorrect understanding of the setting, without being aware of it. This would invalidate the common knowledge assumption. In this paper, we present a new game-theoretic framework, called misinformation games , that provides the formal machinery necessary to study this phenomenon, and present some basic results regarding its properties.