Game Theory category: 252 books
by Tatiana Tatarenko
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book presents new efficient methods for optimization in realistic large-scale, multi-agent systems. These methods do not require the agents to have the full information about the system, but instead allow them to make their local decisions based only on the local information, possibly obtained...
by Hamidou Tembine
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Although valued for its ability to allow teams to collaborate and foster coalitional behaviors among the participants, game theory’s application to networking systems is not without challenges. Distributed Strategic Learning for Wireless Engineers illuminates the promise of learning in dynamic games...
A Beginner's Guide to Finite Mathematics
For Business, Management, and the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
This second edition of A Beginner’s Guide to Finite Mathematics takes a distinctly applied approach to finite mathematics at the freshman and sophomore level. Topics are presented sequentially: the book opens with a brief review of sets and numbers, followed by an introduction to data sets, histograms,...
Advances in Dynamic Games
Theory, Applications, and Numerical Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
This contributed volume focuses on aspects of dynamic game theory including differential games, evolutionary games, and stochastic games. It covers theoretical developments, algorithmic methods, and applications to fields as varied as mathematical biology, environmental management, economics, engineering,...
Estimating Impact
A Handbook of Computational Methods and Models for Anticipating Economic, Social, Political and Security Effects in International Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Sociological theories of crime include: theories of strain blame crime on personal stressors; theories of social learning blame crime on its social rewards, and see crime more as an institution in conflict with other institutions rather than as in- vidual deviance; and theories of control look at...
Advances in Dynamic and Mean Field Games
Theory, Applications, and Numerical Methods
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This contributed volume considers recent advances in dynamic games and their applications, based on presentations given at the 17th Symposium of the International Society of Dynamic Games, held July 12-15, 2016, in Urbino, Italy. Written by experts in their respective disciplines, these papers cover...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered...
by Ilya Molchanov
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This monograph, now in a thoroughly revised second edition, offers the latest research on random sets. It has been extended to include substantial developments achieved since 2005, some of them motivated by applications of random sets to econometrics and finance.
The present volume builds on...
Decision-Making in Committees
Game-Theoretic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Political and economic institutions are typically governed by committees that face the challenge to reconcile the preferences of their members. How should decision rules be designed to generate fair and sustainable agreements, for example if committee members represent groups of different sizes? This...
by Sylvia Nasar
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
“How could you, a mathematician,...
by Jean-Pierre Danthine, John B. Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
The second edition of this authoritative textbook continues the tradition of providing clear and concise descriptions of the new and classic concepts in financial theory. The authors keep the theory accessible by requiring very little mathematical background.
First edition published by Prentice-Hall...
Mexico
A Sociopolitical Critique
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Find out how it is to live in Mexico.
Learn why Mexico is so inefficient and expensive in doing business.
Learn the systematic failures of our legal system.
Understand why Mexican immigrants are the way they are; learn where they come from in an objective perspective of...
by Moshe Kress, Alan Washburn
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
"Combat Modeling" is a systematic learning resource and reference text for the quantitative analysis of combat. After a brief overview, authors Washburn and Kress present individual chapters on shooting without feedback; shooting with feedback; target defense; attrition models; game theory...
Competition
The Birth of a New Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
The Mathematical Theory of Games Sheds Light On A Wide Range of Competitive Activities
What do chess-playing computer programs, biological evolution, competitive sports, gambling, alternative voting systems, public auctions, corporate globalization, and class warfare have in common? All are...