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Evolutionary Game Theory, Natural Selection, and Darwinian Dynamicsby Thomas Vincent; Joel Brown
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 130.00Many topics in natural selection are investigated including co-evolution, speciation, and extinction. It may be described as a book on mathematical Darwinism. Darwin used logical verbal arguments to understand evolution. These arguments are presented here in a mathematical setting useful for both understanding evolution and allowing for prediction as well. more...
Prediction, Learning, and Gamesby Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi; Gabor Lugosi
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 64.00The central theme here is a model of prediction using expert advice, a general framework within which many related problems can be cast and discussed, including repeated game playing, adaptive data compression, sequential investment in the stock market, and sequential pattern analysis. more...
Advances in Dynamic Gamesby Alain Haurie; Shigeo Muto; Leon A. Petrosjan; T.E.S. Raghavan
Springer 2006; US$ 132.00The paradigms of dynamic games play an important role in the development of multi-agent models in engineering, economics, and management science. This book, an outgrowth of the 10th International Symposium on Dynamic Games, presents developments of the theory of dynamic games and its applications to various domains. more...
Models in Cooperative Game Theoryby Rodica Branzei; Dinko Dimitrov; Stef Tijs
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 84.95This book investigates models in cooperative game theory in which the players have the possibility to cooperate partially. In a crisp game the agents are either fully involved or not involved at all in coperation with some other agents, while in a fuzzy game players are allowed to cooperate with infinite many different participation levels, varying from non-cooperation to full cooperation. A multi-choice game describes the intermediate case in which each player may have a fixed number of activity levels. Different set and one-point solution concepts for these games are presented. The properties of these solution concepts and their interrelations on several classes of crisp, fuzzy, and multi-choice games are studied. Applications of the investigated... more...
Index and Stability in Bimatrix Gamesby H. Arndt von Schemde
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 79.95The index of an equilibrium in a game gives information about the "stability" of the equilibrium, for example with respect to game dynamics. Unfortunately, index theory is often very technical. This book presents a new geometric construction that visualises the index in an intuitive way. For example, a 3C B C B C B C B C B C B C B C B n game, for any n, can be represented by a figure in the plane, from which one can read off any equilibrium, and its index as a geometric orientation. With this insight, the index can be characterised in strategic terms alone. Moreover, certain "hyperstable" equilibrium components are seen to have nonzero index. The construction gives an elementary proof that two-player games have a Nash equilibrium,... more...
Russian Contributions to Game Theory and Equilibrium Theoryby Theo S.H. Driessen; Gerard van der Laan; Valeri A. Vasil'ev
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 129.00The research of Soviet scientists within the field of game theory has resulted in many high-level publications. This book aims to report about the research by Russian game theorists during the two decades 1968 - 1988 to the international readership. It contains a collection of contributions in game theory and the field of equilibrium theory. more...
Condorcet's Paradoxby William V. Gehrlein
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 139.00Presents a compilation of the research conducted in the study of Condorcet's Paradox. This book gives an overview of the discovery of "Condorcet's Paradox" in the 18th Century, provides a survey of numerous empirical studies, and compiles the research on mathematical representations for the probability that the paradox will be observed. more...
Algorithmic Game Theoryby Noam Nisan; Tim Roughgarden; Eva Tardos; Vijay V. Vazirani
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 44.00The latest in algorithmic game theory, with contributions from all the leading researchers. more...
Statistische Datenanalyse mit SPSS für Windows: Eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in das Basissystem und das Modul Exakte Tests (German Edition)by Jürgen Janssen; Wilfried Laatz
Springer 2005; US$ 54.95Die 5. Auflage basiert auf Programmversion 13. Aus Besprechungen zu den Vorauflagen:"Im Gegensatz zur Masse der SPSS-Bücher ist dieses Werk erfreulich verständlich und anwendungsorientiert geschrieben ... Viele Screenshots und gute Beispiele erleichtern sowohl die Anwendung von SPSS als auch das Verständnis der einzelnen Verfahren ... Sowohl für Praktiker als auch anwendungsorientierte Wissenschaftler und Studenten vorbehaltlos zu empfehlen. Im Doppelpack mit den Multivariaten von Backhaus et. al. in Breite und Tiefe nicht zu toppen." amazon.de "Wer ... eine größere Datenmenge statistisch auswerten will ..., kann bei SPSS auf ein mächtiges und vielseitiges Programmpaket vertrauen. (...) Die richtige Einstiegshilfe bieten Janssen und Laatz an.... more...
Evolution of Non-expected Utility Preferencesby Sven von Widekind
Springer 2008; US$ 109.00The theory on the evolution of preferences deals with the endogenous formation of preference relations in strategic situations. It is related to the field of evolutionary game theory. Models are based on the 'indirect evolutionary approach' according to which preferences determine choice behavior which in turn determines evolutionary success. The latter eventually governs the evolution of preferences. Literature usually considers a class of preferences which admit an expected utility representation. In this book we analyze the role and the influence of general, possibly non-expected utility preferences in such an evolutionary setup. In particular, we demonstrate that preferences which diverge from von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility... more...