International Society of Dynamic Games

Helsinki, Finland

Region served

Worldwide

Official language

English, FrenchWebsiteISDG Official website

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.)

The Isaacs Award

The executive board of the International Society of Dynamic Games decided in 2003 to establish a prize to recognize the "outstanding contribution to the theory and applications of dynamic games" of two scholars at each of its symposium, starting in 2004. The prize was named after Rufus Isaacs, the acknowledged founding father of differential games. 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 Nowak & Georges Zaccour
2022: Pierre Cardaliaguet & Mabel Tidball
2024: Joel Brown & Roland Malhamé