A Modified Hooke–Jeeves Algorithm in Two-Player Nonlinear Static Game: With an Application in Forest Management

Abstract

Strategy considerations for optimal outcomes play the key roles in every decision-making problems. Game theory in itself preserves the sustainability to draw some decision-making conclusions. Different forms of game exist in literature. This article is concerned with two-player nonlinear static game. We consider here the solution of the game problems through the algorithmic structures, with some modification, of Hooke–Jeeves (HJ) algorithm which is a tool to encounter unconstrained optimization. Basically, we lay emphasis on the modification of the considered function which is to be optimized. Hence, the name of the proposed algorithm is modified HJ algorithm. Numerous articles present different solutions of various real-life problems using HJ algorithm. Forest management problem is considered here under modified HJ algorithm to get solution. This article concludes with some comparative analysis with respect to some different methods, for example, analytical method and graphical method. Our proposed methodology gives better results than the results obtained in analytical method and graphical method with respect to optimal strategy sets and optimal payoff values.

Received: 17 October 2022 | Revised: 1 February 2023 | Accepted: 22 February 2023

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work.

Data Availability Statement

Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.