A guide to modeling and analyzing auctions, with the applications of game theory and auction theory to real-world auction decision making.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This book draws on ideas from philosophical logic, computational logic, multi-agent systems, and game theory to offer a comprehensive account of logic and games viewed in two complementary ways. It examines the logic of games: the development of sophisticated modern dynamic logics that model information flow, communication, and interactive structures in games. It also examines logic as games: t…
"This volume brings together all of Ken Binmore's influential experimental papers on bargaining along with newly written commentary in which Binmore discusses the underlying game theory and addresses the criticism leveled at it by behavioral economists."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An analysis of standard evolutionary dynamics adapted to extensive form games.Evolutionary game theory attempts to predict individual behavior (whether of humans or other species) when interactions between individuals are modeled as a noncooperative game. Most dynamic analyses of evolutionary games are based on their normal forms, despite the fact that many interesting games are specified more …
"A general-readership book about games as an aesthetic form - how to think about the ways in which they create beauty and meaning and exploring the special role they have to play in our present historical moment"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Multidisciplinary research into cooperation and the implications for public policy, drawing on insights from economics, anthropology, biology, social psychology, and sociology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A conceptual and analytical framework for understanding economic institutions and institutional change.Markets are one of the most salient institutions produced by humans, and economists have traditionally analyzed the workings of the market mechanism. Recently, however, economists and others have begun to appreciate the many institution-related events and phenomena that have a significant impa…
"In The Well-Played Game, games guru Bernard De Koven explores the interaction of play and games, offering players -- as well as game designers, educators, and scholars -- a guide to how games work. De Koven's classic treatise on how human beings play together, first published in 1978, investigates many issues newly resonant in the era of video and computer games, including social gameplay and …
The authors describe a new approach to balancing flexibility and commitment in management strategy through the amalgamation of real options and game theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The author shows how game theory can illuminate the rational choices made by characters in texts ranging from the Bible to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' and can explicate strategic questions in law, history, and philosophy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.