Product Description: Game theory explains how to make good choices when different decision makers have conflicting interests. The classical approach assumes that decision makers are committed to making the best choices for themselves regardless of the effect on others, but such an approach is less appropriate when cooperation, compromise, and negotiation are important...read more

Product Description: This volume collects almost two decades of joint work of Sergiu Hart and Andreu Mas-Colell on game dynamics and equilibria. The starting point was the introduction of the adaptive strategy called regret-matching, which on the one hand is simple and natural, and on the other is shown to lead to correlated equilibria...read more

Product Description: Games, or contexts of strategic interaction, pervade and suffuse our lives and the lives of all organisms. How are we to make sense of and cope with such situations? How should an agent play? When will and when won’t cooperation arise and be maintained? Using examples and a careful digestion of the literature, Agents, Games, and Evolution: Strategies at Work and Play addresses these encompassing themes throughout, and is organized into four parts: Part I introduces classical game theory and strategy selection...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to develop a framework for analyzing strategic rationality, a notion central to contemporary game theory, which is the formal study of the interaction of rational agents, and which has proved extremely fruitful in economics, political theory, and business management...read more

Focusing on problem solvers within the programming functions, rather than on compiler writing and language design, Friedman combats the problem of language dependence by showing how programming languages achieve the same results using different syntactic constructs. The text centres on business information processing emphasizing program design methodology, database-centred high-productivity tools and commercial applications. It examines fourth-generation languages and modern programming environments, covers object-oriented and expert systems programming languages, Smalltalk and Prolog, discusses programming paradigms - imperative, functional, rule-oriented, object-oriented, access, dataflow and constraint.

Examines the conditions necessary for cooperation in social interactions and discusses the role of cooperation in winning a strategy game tournament

Product Description: One of the classic early monographs on game theory, this comprehensive overview illustrates the theory's applications to situations involving conflicts of interest, including economic, social, political, and military contexts. Contents include a survey of rectangular games; a method of approximating the value of a game; games in extensive form and those with infinite strategies; distribution functions; Stieltjes integrals; the fundamental theorem for continuous games; separable games; games with convex payoff functions; applications to statistical inference; and much more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is concerned with situations in which several persons reach decisions independently and the final consequence depends, potentially, upon each of the decisions taken. Such situations may be described formally by an extensive form game: a mathematical object which specifies the order in which decisions are to be taken, the information available to the decision makers at each point in time, and the consequence that results for each possible combination of decisions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Games encourage a creatively logical approach to solving problems. When children play strategy games, they learn to enjoy the challenge of thinking hard. Here are more than 20 games your family can enjoy at home or in the car. As a bonus for homeschoolers and teachers, this book includes a guide to analyzing games and a brief introduction to Game Theory...read more

Product Description: Focusing on problem solvers within the programming functions, rather than on compiler writing and language design, Friedman combats the problem of language dependence by showing how programming languages achieve the same results using different syntactic constructs...read more

Analyzes the nature of international disagreements and conflict resolution in terms of game theory and non-zero-sum games.