A class of uncertain variational inequality problems

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new class of variational inequality problems, say, uncertain variational inequality problems based on uncertainty theory in finite Euclidean spaces Rn $R^{n}$. It can be viewed as another extension of classical variational inequality problems besides stochastic variational inequality problems. Note that both stochastic variational inequality problems and uncertain variational inequality problems involve uncertainty in the real world, thus they have no conceptual solutions. Hence, in order to solve uncertain variational inequality problems, we introduce the expected value of uncertain variables (vector). Then we convert it into a classical deterministic variational inequality problem, which can be solved by many algorithms that are developed on the basis of gap functions. Thus the core of this paper is to discuss under what conditions we can convert the expected value model of uncertain variational inequality problems into deterministic variational inequality problems. Finally, as an application, we present an example in a noncooperation game from economics.