A historical perspective on cooperative differential games

This paper provides a brief historical perspective on the use of cooperative solution concepts in the theory of differential and dynamic games. The paper surveys the publications that appeared in control journals, like Automatica, the Journal of Optimization and Applications (JOTA), the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and the proceedings of the successive Differential Games Symposia, during a period that spans from the origin of differential game theory, in the early 1960s, until 1990. The survey concentrates on solution concepts that imply Pareto optimality with respect to the reward criteria of the different players. The survey does not include the topic of team theory.