Game Theory and Its Applications

✍ Scribed by Akio Matsumoto, Ferenc Szidarovszky (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Japan
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book integrates the fundamentals, methodology, and major application fields of noncooperative and cooperative games including conflict resolution. The topics addressed in the book are discrete and continuous games including games represented by finite trees; matrix and bimatrix games as well as oligopolies; cooperative solution concepts; games under uncertainty; dynamic games and conflict resolution. The methodology is illustrated by carefully chosen examples, applications and case studies which are selected from economics, social sciences, engineering, the military and homeland security. This book is highly recommended to readers who are interested in the in-depth and up-to-date integration of the theory and ever-expanding application areas of game theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Discrete Static Games....Pages 7-19
Continuous Static Games....Pages 21-47
Relation to Other Mathematical Problems....Pages 49-52
Existence of Equilibria ....Pages 53-64
Computation of Equilibria....Pages 65-79
Special Matrix Games....Pages 81-96
Uniqueness of Equilibria....Pages 97-103
Repeated and Dynamic Games ....Pages 105-126
Games Under Uncertainty ....Pages 127-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Solutions Based on Characteristic Functions ....Pages 143-168
Conflict Resolution ....Pages 169-183
Multiobjective Optimization....Pages 185-198
Social Choice ....Pages 199-207
Case Studies and Applications ....Pages 209-229
Back Matter....Pages 231-268

✦ Subjects

Game Theory; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences