Patent Document ID: 8108188
Application ID: 12261616
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of solving a leader-follower problem, the method comprising: receiving, with a programmable processor, an expression of the leader-follower problem as a normal form Stackelberg game; solving, with the programmable processor, an enumerated linear program (LP) problem, wherein solving the enumerated LP program comprises: determining a respective mixed leader strategy for each possible follower action of the normal form Stackelberg game, and optimizing a leader payoff for a given mixed leader strategy of the determined mixed leader strategies and a given fixed follower action over a feasible region that includes only mixed leader strategies that provoke the given fixed follower action; generating, with the programmable processor, an output derived from optimization of the leader payoff for the given mixed leader strategy and the given fixed follower action over the feasible region; and outputting, with the programmable processor, the output by changing a physical state associated with an interface.