Kimbrough Agents, Games, and Evolution

Strategies at Work and Play
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4398-3471-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 512 Seiten

Games, or contexts of strategic interaction, pervade and suffuse our lives and the lives of all organisms. How are we to make sense of and cope with such situations? How should an agent play? When will and when won’t cooperation arise and be maintained? Using examples and a careful digestion of the literature, Agents, Games, and Evolution: Strategies at Work and Play addresses these encompassing themes throughout, and is organized into four parts:
Part I introduces classical game theory and strategy selection. It compares ideally rational and the "naturalist" approach used by this book, which focuses on how actual agents chose their strategies, and the effects of these strategies on model systems.
Part II explores a number of basic games, using models in which agents have fixed strategies. This section draws heavily on the substantial literature associated with the relevant application areas in the social sciences.

Part III reviews core results and applications of agent-based models in which strategic interaction is present and for which design issues have genuine practical import. This section draws heavily on the substantial literature associated with the application area to hand.

Part IV addresses miscellaneous topics in strategic interaction, including lying in negotiations, reasoning by backward induction, and evolutionary models.

Modeled after the authors’ Agents, Games, and Evolution course at the University of Pennsylvania, this book keeps mathematics to a minimum, focusing on computational strategies and useful methods for dealing with a variety of situations.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and graduate students in economics, social sciences, mathematics, and operations research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kimbrough, Steven Orla

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensforschung
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Diskrete Mathematik, Kombinatorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Starters
Contexts of Strategic Interaction
Games in the Wild and the Problems of Play

Mixed Motives
Playing Prisoner's Dilemma
Fanning Out: 2x2 Games and Models
Stag Hunt
Pareto versus Nash
Affording Cooperation

Markets and Applications
Competitive Markets
Monopoly Stories
Oligopoly: Cournot Competition
Oligopoly: Bertrand Competition
Supply Curve Bidding
Two-Sided Matching
IDS Games
Organizational Ambidexterity
Bargaining

Topics in Strategic Analysis
Lying and Related Abuses
Evolutionary Models
Backward Induction
Summing Up

Appendices
Game Concepts
Useful Mathematical Results
Further Arguments on the Surprise Exam
Resources on the Web

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Orla Kimbrough, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA