Agents, games, and evolution : strategies at work and play / Steven Orla Kimbrough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimbrough, Steve.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Games of strategy (Mathematics).

Cellular automata.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 488 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2012]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Kimbrough (U. of Pennsylvania-Philadelphia) defines games as strategic interactions, that is, situations in which one agent's actions depend in part on actions of another agent. He looks at problems of play that confront agents who are in, or who would influence, contexts of strategic interaction. One set of questions deals with agents, the strategies they use in a particular context, and evaluating those strategies. Another set of questions involves institutions--a market or a formal game, for example--and how their rules and constraints affect the games within it. The course on which the book as based draws students from business, engineering, biology, psychology and philosophy, he says. Most of the little mathematics necessary is sequestered in appendices. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1. Starters

2. Mixed motives

3. Markets and applications

4. Topics in strategic analysis

5. Appendices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9780429093821

0429093829

Publisher Number:

99984934668

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.