Game Theory category: 252 books
Differential Games
A Mathematical Theory with Applications to Warfare and Pursuit, Control and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
One of the definitive works in game theory, this fascinating volume offers an original look at methods of obtaining solutions for conflict situations. Combining the principles of game theory, the calculus of variations, and control theory, the author considers and solves an amazing array of problems:...
Game Theory
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Developments in the use of game theory have impacted multiple fields and created opportunities for new applications. With the ubiquity of these developments, there is an increase in the overall utilization of this approach. Game Theory: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice contains a compendium of...
by Guillermo Owen
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Game Theory has served as a standard text for game theory courses since the publication of the First Edition in 1968. The Fourth Edition updates several recently developed subfields. It adds fresh chapters on subjects such as games with incomplete information and spatial games. Owen has expanded "Two-Person...
Strategy and Game Theory
Practice Exercises with Answers
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This textbook presents worked-out exercises on game theory with detailed step-by-step explanations. While most textbooks on game theory focus on theoretical results, this book focuses on providing practical examples in which students can learn to systematically apply theoretical solution concepts...
Strategy and Game Theory
Practice Exercises with Answers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
This textbook presents worked-out exercises on game theory with detailed step-by-step explanations. While most textbooks on game theory focus on theoretical results, this book focuses on providing practical examples in which students can learn to systematically apply theoretical solution concepts...
Evolutionary Games with Sociophysics
Analysis of Traffic Flow and Epidemics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
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.
First,...
Beautiful Game Theory
How Soccer Can Help Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports, including...
Spatial Interaction Models
Facility Location Using Game Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Facility location theory develops the idea of locating one or more facilities by optimizing suitable criteria such as minimizing transportation cost, or capturing the largest market share. The contributions in this book focus an approach to facility location theory through game theoretical tools highlighting...
by K.H. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Game Theory: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible and enjoyable guide to the basic principles and extensive applications of game theory.Understand a game matrix, the prisoners’ dilemma, dominant and mixed strategies, zero-sum games, Pareto efficiency, the Nash equilibrium, and the power...
Potential Game Theory
Applications in Radio Resource Allocation
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book offers a thorough examination of potential game theory and its applications in radio resource management for wireless communications systems and networking.
The book addresses two major research goals: how to identify a given game as a potential game, and how to design the utility...
by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
“I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.”—Steven Levitt
Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying...
by William Poundstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Should you watch public television without pledging?...Exceed the posted speed limit?...Hop a subway turnstile without paying? These questions illustrate the so-called "prisoner's dilemma", a social puzzle that we all face every day. Though the answers may seem simple, their profound implications...
Jane Austen, Game Theorist
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Game theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with others—is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years...
by Roger A McCain
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This book introduces new concepts for cooperative game theory, and particularly solutions that determine the distribution of a coalitional surplus among the members of the coalition. It also addresses several generalizations of cooperative game theory. Drawing on methods of welfare economics, new...