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Author : Frank Thuijsman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Optimality and Equilibria in Stochastic Games written by Frank Thuijsman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Thuijsman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (686 download)
Download or read book A Survey on Optimality and Equilibria in Stochastic Games written by Frank Thuijsman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dmitrii Lozovanu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031401808
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Markov Decision Processes and Stochastic Positional Games written by Dmitrii Lozovanu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent findings and results concerning the solutions of especially finite state-space Markov decision problems and determining Nash equilibria for related stochastic games with average and total expected discounted reward payoffs. In addition, it focuses on a new class of stochastic games: stochastic positional games that extend and generalize the classic deterministic positional games. It presents new algorithmic results on the suitable implementation of quasi-monotonic programming techniques. Moreover, the book presents applications of positional games within a class of multi-objective discrete control problems and hierarchical control problems on networks. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers and graduate students who are interested in Markov theory, control theory, optimization and games.
Author : T. Parthasarathy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811565775
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Stochastic Games and Related Concepts written by T. Parthasarathy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses stochastic game theory and related concepts. Topics focused upon in the book include matrix games, finite, infinite, and undiscounted stochastic games, n-player cooperative games, minimax theorem, and more. In addition to important definitions and theorems, the book provides readers with a range of problem-solving techniques and exercises. This book is of value to graduate students and readers of probability and statistics alike.
Author : Ashok P. Maitra
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461240026
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Discrete Gambling and Stochastic Games written by Ashok P. Maitra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of probability began in the seventeenth century with attempts to calculate the odds of winning in certain games of chance. However, it was not until the middle of the twentieth century that mathematicians de veloped general techniques for maximizing the chances of beating a casino or winning against an intelligent opponent. These methods of finding op timal strategies for a player are at the heart of the modern theories of stochastic control and stochastic games. There are numerous applications to engineering and the social sciences, but the liveliest intuition still comes from gambling. The now classic work How to Gamble If You Must: Inequalities for Stochastic Processes by Dubins and Savage (1965) uses gambling termi nology and examples to develop an elegant, deep, and quite general theory of discrete-time stochastic control. A gambler "controls" the stochastic pro cess of his or her successive fortunes by choosing which games to play and what bets to make.
Author : T.E.S. Raghaven
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401137609
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Stochastic Games And Related Topics written by T.E.S. Raghaven and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Ummels
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9085550408
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Stochastic Multiplayer Games written by Michael Ummels and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic games provide a versatile model for reactive systems that are affected by random events. This dissertation advances the algorithmic theory of stochastic games to incorporate multiple players, whose objectives are not necessarily conflicting. The basis of this work is a comprehensive complexity-theoretic analysis of the standard game-theoretic solution concepts in the context of stochastic games over a finite state space. One main result is that the constrained existence of a Nash equilibrium becomes undecidable in this setting. This impossibility result is accompanied by several positive results, including efficient algorithms for natural special cases.
Author : Abraham Neyman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401001898
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Stochastic Games and Applications written by Abraham Neyman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based on lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Stochastic Games and Applications," which took place at Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 1999. It gives the editors great pleasure to present it on the occasion of L.S. Shapley's eightieth birthday, and on the fiftieth "birthday" of his seminal paper "Stochastic Games," with which this volume opens. We wish to thank NATO for the grant that made the Institute and this volume possible, and the Center for Game Theory in Economics of the State University of New York at Stony Brook for hosting this event. We also wish to thank the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, for providing continuing financial support, without which this project would never have been completed. In particular, we are grateful to our editorial assistant Mike Borns, whose work has been indispensable. We also would like to acknowledge the support of the Ecole Poly tech nique, Paris, and the Israel Science Foundation. March 2003 Abraham Neyman and Sylvain Sorin ix STOCHASTIC GAMES L.S. SHAPLEY University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, USA 1. Introduction In a stochastic game the play proceeds by steps from position to position, according to transition probabilities controlled jointly by the two players.
Author : Panos M. Pardalos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387772472
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Pareto Optimality, Game Theory and Equilibria written by Panos M. Pardalos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-02 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive work examines important recent developments and modern applications in the fields of optimization, control, game theory and equilibrium programming. In particular, the concepts of equilibrium and optimality are of immense practical importance affecting decision-making problems regarding policy and strategies, and in understanding and predicting systems in different application domains, ranging from economics and engineering to military applications. The book consists of 29 survey chapters written by distinguished researchers in the above areas.
Author : David W.K. Yeung
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 038727622X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Cooperative Stochastic Differential Games written by David W.K. Yeung and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerical Optimization presents a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the most effective methods in continuous optimization. It responds to the growing interest in optimization in engineering, science, and business by focusing on the methods that are best suited to practical problems. For this new edition the book has been thoroughly updated throughout. There are new chapters on nonlinear interior methods and derivative-free methods for optimization, both of which are used widely in practice and the focus of much current research. Because of the emphasis on practical methods, as well as the extensive illustrations and exercises, the book is accessible to a wide audience. It can be used as a graduate text in engineering, operations research, mathematics, computer science, and business. It also serves as a handbook for researchers and practitioners in the field. The authors have strived to produce a text that is pleasant to read, informative, and rigorous - one that reveals both the beautiful nature of the discipline and its practical side.
Author : Martino Bardi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461215927
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Stochastic and Differential Games written by Martino Bardi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of two-person, zero-sum differential games started at the be ginning of the 1960s with the works of R. Isaacs in the United States and L.S. Pontryagin and his school in the former Soviet Union. Isaacs based his work on the Dynamic Programming method. He analyzed many special cases of the partial differential equation now called Hamilton Jacobi-Isaacs-briefiy HJI-trying to solve them explicitly and synthe sizing optimal feedbacks from the solution. He began a study of singular surfaces that was continued mainly by J. Breakwell and P. Bernhard and led to the explicit solution of some low-dimensional but highly nontriv ial games; a recent survey of this theory can be found in the book by J. Lewin entitled Differential Games (Springer, 1994). Since the early stages of the theory, several authors worked on making the notion of value of a differential game precise and providing a rigorous derivation of the HJI equation, which does not have a classical solution in most cases; we mention here the works of W. Fleming, A. Friedman (see his book, Differential Games, Wiley, 1971), P.P. Varaiya, E. Roxin, R.J. Elliott and N.J. Kalton, N.N. Krasovskii, and A.I. Subbotin (see their book Po sitional Differential Games, Nauka, 1974, and Springer, 1988), and L.D. Berkovitz. A major breakthrough was the introduction in the 1980s of two new notions of generalized solution for Hamilton-Jacobi equations, namely, viscosity solutions, by M.G. Crandall and P.-L.
Author : Peter Borm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 030647526X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Chapters in Game Theory written by Peter Borm and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters in Game Theory has been written on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Stef Tijs, who can be regarded as the godfather of game theory in the Netherlands. The contributors all are indebted to Stef Tijs, as former Ph.D. students or otherwise. The book contains fourteen chapters on a wide range of subjects. Some of these can be considered surveys while other chapters present new results: most contributions can be positioned somewhere in between these categories. The topics covered include: cooperative stochastic games; noncooperative stochastic games; sequencing games; games arising form linear (semi-) infinite programming problems; network formation, costs and potential games; potentials and consistency in transferable utility games; the nucleolus and equilibrium prices; population uncertainty and equilibrium selection; cost sharing; centrality in social networks; extreme points of the core; equilibrium sets of bimatrix games; game theory and the market; and transfer procedures for nontransferable utility games. Both editors did their Ph.D with Stef Tijs, while he was affiliated with the mathematics department of the University of Nijmegen.
Author : Bor-Sen Chen
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429780508
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Stochastic Game Strategies and their Applications written by Bor-Sen Chen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game theory involves multi-person decision making and differential dynamic game theory has been widely applied to n-person decision making problems, which are stimulated by a vast number of applications. This book addresses the gap to discuss general stochastic n-person noncooperative and cooperative game theory with wide applications to control systems, signal processing systems, communication systems, managements, financial systems, and biological systems. H∞ game strategy, n-person cooperative and noncooperative game strategy are discussed for linear and nonlinear stochastic systems along with some computational algorithms developed to efficiently solve these game strategies.
Author : János Flesch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Optimality in Different Strategy Classes in Zero-sum Stochastic Games written by János Flesch and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leon A Petrosyan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814505552
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Differential Games Of Pursuit written by Leon A Petrosyan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993-09-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical optimal control theory deals with the determination of an optimal control that optimizes the criterion subjects to the dynamic constraint expressing the evolution of the system state under the influence of control variables. If this is extended to the case of multiple controllers (also called players) with different and sometimes conflicting optimization criteria (payoff function) it is possible to begin to explore differential games. Zero-sum differential games, also called differential games of pursuit, constitute the most developed part of differential games and are rigorously investigated. In this book, the full theory of differential games of pursuit with complete and partial information is developed. Numerous concrete pursuit-evasion games are solved (”life-line” games, simple pursuit games, etc.), and new time-consistent optimality principles in the n-person differential game theory are introduced and investigated.
Author : Jacob K. Goeree
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400880920
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Quantal Response Equilibrium written by Jacob K. Goeree and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantal Response Equilibrium presents a stochastic theory of games that unites probabilistic choice models developed in psychology and statistics with the Nash equilibrium approach of classical game theory. Nash equilibrium assumes precise and perfect decision making in games, but human behavior is inherently stochastic and people realize that the behavior of others is not perfectly predictable. In contrast, QRE models choice behavior as probabilistic and extends classical game theory into a more realistic and useful framework with broad applications for economics, political science, management, and other social sciences. Quantal Response Equilibrium spans the range from basic theoretical foundations to examples of how the principles yield useful predictions and insights in strategic settings, including voting, bargaining, auctions, public goods provision, and more. The approach provides a natural framework for estimating the effects of behavioral factors like altruism, reciprocity, risk aversion, judgment fallacies, and impatience. New theoretical results push the frontiers of models that include heterogeneity, learning, and well-specified behavioral modifications of rational choice and rational expectations. The empirical relevance of the theory is enhanced by discussion of data from controlled laboratory experiments, along with a detailed users' guide for estimation techniques. Quantal Response Equilibrium makes pioneering game-theoretic methods and interdisciplinary applications available to a wide audience.
Author : Yaning Lin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811950490
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Essays on Pareto Optimality in Cooperative Games written by Yaning Lin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on Pareto optimality in cooperative games. Most of the existing works focus on the Pareto optimality of deterministic continuous-time systems or for the regular convex LQ case. To expand on the available literature, we explore the existence conditions of Pareto solutions in stochastic differential game for more general cases. In addition, the LQ Pareto game for stochastic singular systems, Pareto-based guaranteed cost control for uncertain mean-field stochastic systems, and the existence conditions of Pareto solutions in cooperative difference game are also studied in detail. Addressing Pareto optimality for more general cases and wider systems is one of the major features of the book, making it particularly suitable for readers who are interested in multi-objective optimal control. Accordingly, it offers a valuable asset for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in the fields of control theory and control engineering, economics, management science, mathematics, etc.
