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Evolutionary dynamics and extensive form games /

An analysis of standard evolutionary dynamics adapted to extensive form games. Evolutionary game theory attempts to predict individual behavior (whether of humans or other species) when interactions between individuals are modeled as a noncooperative game. Most dynamic analyses of evolutionary games...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cressman, Ross
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
Colección:MIT Press series on economic learning and social evolution ; 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:An analysis of standard evolutionary dynamics adapted to extensive form games. Evolutionary game theory attempts to predict individual behavior (whether of humans or other species) when interactions between individuals are modeled as a noncooperative game. Most dynamic analyses of evolutionary games are based on their normal forms, despite the fact that many interesting games are specified more naturally through their extensive forms. Because every extensive form game has a normal form representation, some theorists hold that the best way to analyze an extensive form game is simply to ignore the extensive form structure and study the game in its normal form representation. This book rejects that suggestion, arguing that a game's normal form representation often omits essential information from the perspective of dynamic evolutionary game theory. The book offers a synthesis of current knowledge about extensive form games from an evolutionary perspective, emphasizing connections between the extensive form representation and dynamic models that traditionally have been applied to biological and economic phenomena. It develops a general theory to analyze dynamically arbitrary extensive form games and applies this theory to a range of examples. It lays the foundation for the analysis of specific extensive form models of behavior and for the further theoretical study of extensive form evolutionary games.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 316 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-312) and index.
ISBN:9780262270977
0262270978
0585481148
9780585481142
0262033054
9780262033053