Game theory

Game theory is the mathematical study of interaction among independent, self-interested agents.

This book gathers selected contributions by top Portuguese and international researchers in the field of Operations Research, presented at the 19th Congress of APDIO (Portuguese Association of Operational Research).

This book shows how to model selected communication scenarios using game theory.

Advanced Textbooks in Economics, Volume 4: Capital Theory and the Distribution of Income focuses on the interconnection of capital theory and the distribution of income, including marginal products, capital, interest rates, and price systems.

This volume provides a general overview of discrete- and continuous-time Markov control processes and stochastic games, along with a look at the range of applications of stochastic control and some of its recent theoretical developments.

This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote Africa's indigenous languages as medium of instruction in educational systems.

This book adopts an individual differences approach to explain the psychology of chess by reviewing an extensive body of research.

This book contains essays in honour of Claus Weddepohl who, after 22 years, is retiring as professor of mathematical economics at the Department of Quantitative Economics of the University of Amsterdam.

The ability to understand and predict behavior in strategic situations, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others, has been the domain of game theory since the 1950s.

Social systems are among the most complex known.

This textbook covers microeconomic theory at the level of intermediate and advanced undergraduates.

The chapters in this volume explore how various methods from game theory can be utilized to optimize security and risk-management strategies.

This book explains why the global community has been successful in correcting some recent large-scale problems, but not others.

Mathematical card effects offer both beginning and experienced magicians an opportunity to entertain with a minimum of props.

The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union.

A fascinating introduction to the key concepts and ideas of game theory.

Ken Binmore's previous game theory textbook, Fun and Games (D.

This book is dedicated to the study of the term structures of the yields of zero-coupon bonds.

This classic text, originally from the noted logician Elliot Mendelson, is intended to be an easy-to-read introduction to the basic ideas and techniques of game theory.

This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshe Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power.

This contributed volume considers recent advances in dynamic games and their applications, based on presentations given at the 16th Symposium of the International Society of Dynamic Games, held July 9-12, 2014, in Amsterdam.

The book offers a rigorous description of the procedures that proportional representation systems use to translate vote counts into seat numbers.

This Brief introduces the wireless spectrum market and discusses the current research for spectrum auctions.

Game-theoretic probability and finance come of age Glenn Shafer and Vladimir Vovk s Probability and Finance, published in 2001, showed that perfect-information games can be used to define mathematical probability.

This book reports on advanced concepts in fuzzy graph theory, showing a set of tools that can be successfully applied to understanding and modeling illegal human trafficking.

Mathematik in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften bedeutet einerseits das Problem, mathematische Ideen zu verstehen, um die dazugehörigen Techniken zu beherrschen und andererseits, diese zunächst abstrakten Techniken zielgerichtet und sinnvoll für ökonomische Anwendungen nutzbar zu machen.

Steps forward in mathematics often reverberate in other scientific disciplines, and give rise to innovative conceptual developments or find surprising technological applications.

Das Buch gibt eine Einführung in einige zentrale Konzepte der (mathematischen) Spieltheorie und legt seinen Fokus dabei auf die Lösung von Nash- und verallgemeinerten Nash-Gleichgewichtsproblemen.

The scientific and technical development of any kind of germplasm is regulated by a vast network of treaties, conventions, international agreements, and national and regional legislation.

This ambitious book is the first to present a theoretical framework for a unified analysis of both behavioral and traditional economics.

This work examines viability theory and its applications to control theory and differential games.

AC, the axiom of choice, because of its non-constructive character, is the most controversial mathematical axiom, shunned by some, used indiscriminately by others.

The aim of the book is to present the state of the art of the theory of symmetric (Hermitian) matrix Riccati equations and to contribute to the development of the theory of non-symmetric Riccati equations as well as to certain classes of coupled and generalized Riccati equations occurring in differential games and stochastic control.

Are you looking for new lectures for your course on algorithms, combinatorial optimization, or algorithmic game theory?

This book surveys new algorithmic approaches and applications to natural and man-made disasters such as oil spills, hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires.

Groups of people perform acts that are subject to standards of rationality.

In recent years, the usual optimization techniques, which have proved so useful in microeconomic theory, have been extended to incorporate more powerful topological and differential methods, and these methods have led to new results on the qualitative behavior of general economic and political systems.

Game Theory: A Modeling Approach quickly moves readers through the fundamental ideas of the subject to enable them to engage in creative modeling projects based on game theoretic concepts.

This volume reflects the 'philosophy of science in practice' approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research.

Das Buch befaßt sich mit der nichtkooperativen Spieltheorie unter Zuhilfenahme eines Computer-Algebra-Systems (Mathematica).

This original and timely monograph describes a unique self-contained excursion that reveals to the readers the roles of two basic cognitive abilities, i.