Essentials of game theory a concise, multidisciplinary introduction /

Game theory is the mathematical study of interaction among independent, self-interested agents. The audience for game theory has grown dramatically in recent years, and now spans disciplines as diverse as political science, biology, psychology, economics, linguistics, sociology, and computer science...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leyton-Brown, Kevin, 1975-
Other Authors: Shoham, Yoav.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Synthesis lectures on artificial intelligence and machine learning(Online) ; #3.
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Table of Contents:
  • Games in normal form
  • Analyzing games: from optimality to equilibrium
  • Further solution concepts for normal-form games
  • Games with sequential actions: the perfect-information extensive form
  • Generalizing the extensive form: imperfect-information games
  • Repeated and stochastic games
  • Uncertainty about payoffs: Bayesian games
  • Coaltional game theory
  • History and references
  • Index.