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Book Coalition and Connection in Games

Download or read book Coalition and Connection in Games written by Silviu Guiasu and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalition and Connection in Games: Problems of Modern Game Theory using Methods Belonging to Systems Theory and Information Theory focuses on coalition formation and on connections occurring in games, noting the use of mathematical models in the evaluation of processes involved in games. The book first takes a look at the process of strategy in playing games in which the conditional choices of players are noted. The sequence of decisions during the playing of games and observance of the rules are emphasized. The text also ponders on the mathematical tool of game theory in which the differences in the playing of games is seen as influenced by the number of players involved. The manuscript reviews how the von Neumann-Morgenstern theory is used in measuring the conditions on how games are played. The theory points out that games with more than two players call for the introduction of concepts and an instrument in comparison with two-person zero-sum games. The text also underscores the tendency of players to obtain a large share of the payoff, whether playing by themselves or participating in coalitions. The book is a fine reference for readers interested in the analysis of game theories.

Book A Game Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation

Download or read book A Game Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation written by Debraj Ray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon and extending his inaugural Lipsey Lectures, Debraj Ray looks at coalition formation from the perspective of game theory. Ray brings together developments in both cooperative and noncooperative game theory to study the analytics of coalition formation and binding agreements.

Book Investment under Uncertainty  Coalition Spillovers and Market Evolution in a Game Theoretic Perspective

Download or read book Investment under Uncertainty Coalition Spillovers and Market Evolution in a Game Theoretic Perspective written by J.H.H Thijssen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two crucial aspects of economic reality are uncertainty and dynamics. In this book, new models and techniques are developed to analyse economic dynamics in an uncertain environment. In the first part, investment decisions of firms are analysed in a framework where imperfect information regarding the investment's profitability is obtained randomly over time. In the second part, a new class of cooperative games, spillover games, is developed and applied to a particular investment problem under uncertainty: mergers. In the third part, the effect of bounded rationality on market evolution is analysed for oligopolistic competition and incomplete financial markets.

Book Game Theory for Networks

Download or read book Game Theory for Networks written by Julian Cheng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, GameNets 2016, held in Kelowna, Canada, in May 2016. The 13 papers were carefully selected from 26 submissions and cover topics such as algorithmic game theory, game models and theories, game theories in wireless networks, design and analysis of economic games.

Book Intelligent Information and Database Systems

Download or read book Intelligent Information and Database Systems written by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume proceedings of the ACIIDS 2015 conference, LNAI 9011 + 9012, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, held in Bali, Indonesia, in March 2015. The total of 117 full papers accepted for publication in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 332 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: semantic web, social networks and recommendation systems; text processing and information retrieval; intelligent database systems; intelligent information systems; decision support and control systems; machine learning and data mining; multiple model approach to machine learning; innovations in intelligent systems and applications; bio-inspired optimization techniques and their applications; machine learning in biometrics and bioinformatics with applications; advanced data mining techniques and applications; collective intelligent systems for e-market trading, technology opportunity discovery and collaborative learning; intelligent information systems in security and defense; analysis of image, video and motion data in life sciences; augmented reality and 3D media; cloud based solutions; internet of things, big data and cloud computing; and artificial intelligent techniques and their application in engineering and operational research.

Book Games  Theory and Applications

Download or read book Games Theory and Applications written by L. C. Thomas and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text opens with the theory of 2-person zero-sum games, 2-person non-zero sum games, and n-person games, at a level between non-mathematical introductory books and technical mathematical game theory books. Includes introductory explanations of gaming and meta games. Includes numerous exercises anbd problems with solutions and over 30 illustrations. 1986 edition.

Book Contributions to the Theory of Games

Download or read book Contributions to the Theory of Games written by Albert William Tucker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1959-05-21 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Contributions to the Theory of Games (AM-40), Volume IV, will be forthcoming.

Book Multiagent Systems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yoav Shoham
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2008-12-15
  • ISBN : 113947524X
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Multiagent Systems written by Yoav Shoham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiagent systems combine multiple autonomous entities, each having diverging interests or different information. This overview of the field offers a computer science perspective, but also draws on ideas from game theory, economics, operations research, logic, philosophy and linguistics. It will serve as a reference for researchers in each of these fields, and be used as a text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. The authors emphasize foundations to create a broad and rigorous treatment of their subject, with thorough presentations of distributed problem solving, game theory, multiagent communication and learning, social choice, mechanism design, auctions, cooperative game theory, and modal logics of knowledge and belief. For each topic, basic concepts are introduced, examples are given, proofs of key results are offered, and algorithmic considerations are examined. An appendix covers background material in probability theory, classical logic, Markov decision processes and mathematical programming.

Book Next Generation Wireless Technologies

Download or read book Next Generation Wireless Technologies written by Naveen Chilamkurti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text/reference examines the various challenges to secure, efficient and cost-effective next-generation wireless networking. Topics and features: presents the latest advances, standards and technical challenges in a broad range of emerging wireless technologies; discusses cooperative and mesh networks, delay tolerant networks, and other next-generation networks such as LTE; examines real-world applications of vehicular communications, broadband wireless technologies, RFID technology, and energy-efficient wireless communications; introduces developments towards the ‘Internet of Things’ from both a communications and a service perspective; discusses the machine-to-machine communication model, important applications of wireless technologies in healthcare, and security issues in state-of-the-art networks.

Book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

Download or read book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior written by John von Neumann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations. And it is today established throughout both the social sciences and a wide range of other sciences. This sixtieth anniversary edition includes not only the original text but also an introduction by Harold Kuhn, an afterword by Ariel Rubinstein, and reviews and articles on the book that appeared at the time of its original publication in the New York Times, tthe American Economic Review, and a variety of other publications. Together, these writings provide readers a matchless opportunity to more fully appreciate a work whose influence will yet resound for generations to come.

Book Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXXIV

Download or read book Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXXIV written by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as performance optimization in IoT, big data, reliability, privacy, security, service selection, QoS and machine learning. This thirty-fourth issue contains 12 selected papers which present new findings and innovative methodologies as well as discuss issues and challenges in the field of collective intelligence in group decision making with special emphasize given to voting theory, power indices and graphs while addressing elections, social choices, IoT and allocation algorithms.

Book The Future of Economic Design

Download or read book The Future of Economic Design written by Jean-François Laslier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays represents responses by over eighty scholars to an unusual request: give your high level assessment of the field of economic design, as broadly construed. Where do we come from? Where do we go from here? The book editors invited short, informal reflections expressing deeply felt but hard to demonstrate opinions, unsupported speculation, and controversial views of a kind one might not normally risk submitting for review. The contributors – both senior researchers who have shaped the field and promising, younger researchers – responded with a diverse collection of provocative pieces, including: retrospective assessments or surveys of the field; opinion papers; reflections on critical points for the development of the discipline; proposals for the immediate future; "science fiction"; and many more. The readers should have fun reading these unusual pieces – as much as the contributors enjoyed writing them.

Book The Random Spatial Economy and its Evolution

Download or read book The Random Spatial Economy and its Evolution written by Leslie Curry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume, spanning a lifetime's research, is a highly innovative first attempt at a consistent theoretical approach to the elements, structures and dynamics of the geography of agents, settlements and trade. Cause and effect are replaced by chance within constraints. Populations are substituted for unreal representative individuals, variability for uniformity, probabilistic process for unique history. Ignorance is a major factor in interpersonal and inter-areal commercial relations so that the focus is on flows of information and their effects on the efficiency of the economy or, alternatively, on changes in its information content. Recent work on spatial arrangements in many physical and social sciences is incorporated but always interpreted from an overriding geographical viewpoint. Key concepts are locational potential, distance friction, mobility, diffusion, spatial pattern and texture, adaptability, efficiency, spatial interaction and dependence. Analytic methods include autocovariance and transfer functions, areal special densities and entropy. Various forms of self-organization of economic spatial patterns are examined.

Book Handbook of Game Theory

Download or read book Handbook of Game Theory written by Petyon Young and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Developing the theories at the heart of game theory has resulted in 8 Nobel Prizes and insights that researchers in many fields continue to develop. In Volume 4, top scholars synthesize and analyze mainstream scholarship on games and economic behavior, providing an updated account of developments in game theory since the 2002 publication of Volume 3, which only covers work through the mid 1990s. - Focuses on innovation in games and economic behavior - Presents coherent summaries of subjects in game theory - Makes details about game theory accessible to scholars in fields outside economics

Book N Person Game Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anatol Rapoport
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2013-06-17
  • ISBN : 0486143678
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book N Person Game Theory written by Anatol Rapoport and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVSequel to Two-Person Game Theory introduces necessary mathematical notation (mainly set theory), presents basic concepts and models, and provides applications to social situations. /div

Book Connections

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sanjeev Goyal
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012-01-12
  • ISBN : 140082916X
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Connections written by Sanjeev Goyal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a huge variety of social and economic phenomena. Standard economic theory did not give much credit to the role of networks until the early 1990s, but since then the study of the theory of networks has blossomed. At the heart of this research is the idea that the pattern of connections between individual rational agents shapes their actions and determines their rewards. The importance of connections has in turn motivated the study of the very processes by which networks are formed. In Connections, Sanjeev Goyal puts contemporary thinking about networks and economic activity into context. He develops a general framework within which this body of research can be located. In the first part of the book he demonstrates that location in a network has significant effects on individual rewards and that, given this, it is natural that individuals will seek to form connections to move the network in their favor. This idea motivates the second part of the book, which develops a general theory of network formation founded on individual incentives. Goyal assesses the robustness of current research findings and identifies the substantive open questions. Written in a style that combines simple examples with formal models and complete mathematical proofs, Connections is a concise and self-contained treatment of the economic theory of networks, one that should become the natural source of reference for graduate students in economics and related disciplines.

Book Algorithmic Game Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Noam Nisan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2007-09-24
  • ISBN : 1139466542
  • Pages : 928 pages

Download or read book Algorithmic Game Theory written by Noam Nisan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-24 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years game theory has had a substantial impact on computer science, especially on Internet- and e-commerce-related issues. Algorithmic Game Theory, first published in 2007, develops the central ideas and results of this exciting area in a clear and succinct manner. More than 40 of the top researchers in this field have written chapters that go from the foundations to the state of the art. Basic chapters on algorithmic methods for equilibria, mechanism design and combinatorial auctions are followed by chapters on important game theory applications such as incentives and pricing, cost sharing, information markets and cryptography and security. This definitive work will set the tone of research for the next few years and beyond. Students, researchers, and practitioners alike need to learn more about these fascinating theoretical developments and their widespread practical application.