Game Theory category: 252 books

This wide-ranging and accessible book serves as a fascinating guide to the strategies and concepts that help us understand the boundaries between physics, on the one hand, and sociology, economics, and biology on the other. From cooperation and criticality to flock dynamics and fractals, the author...

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This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science. The debates revolve mainly around two issues: firstly, whether social phenomena exist sui generis and how they relate to individuals. This is the focus of discussions...

"Cartan's work provides a superb text for an undergraduate course in advanced calculus, but at the same time it furnishes the reader with an excellent foundation for global and nonlinear algebra."—Mathematical Review"Brilliantly successful."—Bulletin de l'Association des Professeurs de Mathematiques"The...

This book covers recent advances in Complex Automated Negotiations as a widely studied emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The book includes selected revised and extended papers from the 7th International Workshop on Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiation (ACAN2014),...

This book presents the latest perspectives and challenges within the interrelated fields of econophysics and sociophysics, which have emerged from the application of statistical physics to economics and sociology. Economic and financial markets appear to be in a permanent state of flux. Billions of...

This book presents a crisis scenario generator with black swans, black butterflies and worst case scenarios. It is the most useful scenario generator that can be used to manage assets in a crisis-prone period, offering more reliable values for Value at Risk (VaR), Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR)...

Finance Mathematics is devoted to financial markets both with discrete and continuous time, exploring how to make the transition from discrete to continuous time in option pricing. This book features a detailed dynamic model of financial markets with discrete time, for application in real-world environments,...

Despite significant achievements, the discipline of supply chain management is still unable to satisfactorily handle many practical real-world challenges.  The authors of Networks Against Time claim that a unified supply chain network analytics framework is needed which should be able to handle optimization...

This book covers the modelling of human behaviour in the education and labour markets, which due to their interdependency are viewed as one system. Important factors influencing the decision-making of individuals and firms in this system are discussed. The role of social environment and networks is...

Dieses bewährte, pragmatisch orientierte Standardwerk deckt den gesamten Stoff der Vorlesung Wirtschaftsmathematik im Bachelorstudium einschließlich der Finanzmathematik ab. Im Vordergrund stehen die tatsächlichen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten der Mathematik in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, nicht die...

Applications of operant techniques in treatment and education have proliferated in recent years. Among the various techniques, the token economy has been particu­ larly popular. The token economy has been extended to many populations included in psychiatry, clinical psychology, education, and the...

Ob rätselhaftes Naturschauspiel, spannendes Glücksspiel oder harter Wettbewerb in Sport, Beruf und Wirtschaft – das Spiel gehört zum Leben, und wir sollten seine Regeln kennen. Überall findet die Spieltheorie ähnliche Grundmuster. Betrachten wir das Spiel also genauer, denn wir haben keine...

In diesem einführenden Lehrbuch werden alle diejenigen Kenntnisse der Finanzmathematik vermittelt, die der Autor bei seinem Berufseinstieg in die Versicherungsbranche gerne gehabt hätte. Der Leser erhält konkret eine intuitive Einführung in die finanzmathematische Analyse von deterministischen...