The game of Dots-and-Boxes, the popular game in which two players take turns connecting an array of dots to form squares, or boxes has long been considered merely a child's game.
Geometry, Language and Strategy is a way of looking at game theory or strategic decision-making from a scientific perspective, using standard equations from the fields of engineering and physics.
This book identifies and systematically confirms the various factors that allow dangerous nuclear power projects to proceed without adequate risk assessment, even as society recognizes the magnitude of risks associated with nuclear power generation.
Efficiency and Equity of Climate Change Policy is a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of climate change policy, addressing the issues with a quantitative modelling approach.
This book constitutes revised selected and extended papers presented at track 4 of the Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems, FedCSIS 2020, which took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during September 6-9, 2020.
In diesem Buch finden Studierende aller wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Studiengänge eine verständliche Einführung in die für sie relevanten mathematischen Methoden.
Through analysis of three case study videogames - Left 4 Dead 2, DayZ and Minecraft - and their online player communities, Digital Zombies, Undead Stories develops a framework for understanding how collective gameplay generates experiences of narrative, as well as the narrative dimensions of players' creative activity on social media platforms.
Hex: The Full Story is for anyone - hobbyist, professional, student, teacher - who enjoys board games, game theory, discrete math, computing, or history.
The primary goal of this book is to present the research findings and conclusions of physicists, economists, mathematicians and financial engineers working in the field of "e;Econophysics"e; who have undertaken agent-based modelling, comparison with empirical studies and related investigations.
Based on over 15 years' experience in the design and delivery of successful first-year courses, this book equips undergraduates with the mathematical skills required for degree courses in economics, finance, management, and business studies.
Der Zufall in Gestalt von unvorhersehbaren Risiken und Chancen spielt seit jeher eine große Rolle bei vielen Entscheidungen in Wirtschaftsleben, Technik und Wissenschaft.
Disjunctive Programming is a technique and a discipline initiated by the author in the early 1970's, which has become a central tool for solving nonconvex optimization problems like pure or mixed integer programs, through convexification (cutting plane) procedures combined with enumeration.
Using the theory of Prisoner''s Dilemma, Prisoners of Reason explores how neoliberalism departs from classic liberalism and how it rests on game theory.
Transnational Cooperation: An Issue-Based Approach presents an analysis of transnational cooperation or collective action that stresses basic concepts and intuition.
The scientific monograph of a survey kind presented to the reader's attention deals with fundamental ideas and basic schemes of optimization methods that can be effectively used for solving strategic planning and operations manage- ment problems related, in particular, to transportation.
This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the consecutively held international conferences on "e;Game Theory and Networks"e;, organized by the Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh University, India, in collaboration with the Economics Department of Queen's University, Belfast, UK, during September 6-9, 2019 and September, 13-15 2018.
This book provides an introduction to the models, methods, and results of some due date-related scheduling problems in the field of multiagent scheduling.
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.
In complementarity theory, which is a relatively new domain of applied mathematics, several kinds of mathematical models and problems related to the study of equilibrium are considered from the point of view of physics as well as economics.
Mathematical Puzzle Tales from Mount Olympus uses fascinating tales from Greek Mythology as the background for introducing mathematics puzzles to the general public.
Recent applications of evolutionary game theory in the merging fields of the mathematical and social sciences are brilliantly portrayed in this book, which highlights social physics and shows how the approach can help to quantitatively model complex human-environmental-social systems.
This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime.
This book presents the works and research findings of physicists, economists, mathematicians, statisticians, and financial engineers who have undertaken data-driven modelling of market dynamics and other empirical studies in the field of Econophysics.
This book details cutting-edge research into human-like driving technology, utilising game theory to better suit a human and machine hybrid driving environment.
This book is the first in-depth guide to applying the philosophy, theory, and methods of decision analysis to creating and executing winning legal strategies.
A ';fascinating, witty, and perspective-shifting' (Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author) tour of Bayes's theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy.
This era of science and engineering has attracted researchers tasked with evaluating performance and optimization of problems in the field of operations research.
This contributed volume considers recent advances in dynamic games and their applications, based on presentations given at the 17th Symposium of the International Society of Dynamic Games, held July 12-15, 2016, in Urbino, Italy.