Connections are a part of many games - for instance tic-tac-toe and Go - but are these connection games? This book, a comprehensive study of the connection game genre, aims to impose some structure on this increasingly large family of games, and to define exactly what constitutes a connection game...
Experimental Game Theory is the first textbook to introduce the main concepts of game theory and to confront them with experimental evidence. This applied, real world approach will help students understand how game theory is and can be brought to bear on real world decision making...
This book breaks new ground in combining psychological with evolutionary game theory, making for a highly promising way towards a better understanding of the individual and the development of their behaviour and the individual’s perceptions of it...
Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious. Following a long period of time where the profit incentives of firms have prevailed over preservation of the environ..
By applying game theory to the study of social movements, and offering a dynamic model that depicts the 1989 Chinese student movement as a three-iteration game with incomplete information, this original work demonstrates how a new social system with four intrinsic properties, developed and led almos..