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This paper surveys and structures modern trends in games on networks and networking games. We introduce a certain classification of such games from the viewpoints of game theory and graph theory.

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Original Russian Text © D.A. Novikov, 2010, published in Matematicheskaya Teoriya Igr i Prilozheniya, 2010, No. 1, pp. 107–124.

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Novikov, D.A. Games and networks. Autom Remote Control 75, 1145–1154 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0005117914060149

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