A course in Stochastic game theory:

Stochastic games are have an element of chance: the state of the next round is determined probabilistically depending upon players' actions and the current state. Successful players need to balance the need for short-term payoffs while ensuring future opportunities remain high. The various tech...

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Beteilige Person: Solan, Eilon 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:London Mathematical Society student texts
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029704
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029704
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029704
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029704
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029704
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029704
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029704
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029704
Zusammenfassung:Stochastic games are have an element of chance: the state of the next round is determined probabilistically depending upon players' actions and the current state. Successful players need to balance the need for short-term payoffs while ensuring future opportunities remain high. The various techniques needed to analyze these often highly non-trivial games are a showcase of attractive mathematics, including methods from probability, differential equations, algebra, and combinatorics. This book presents a course on the theory of stochastic games going from the basics through to topics of modern research, focusing on conceptual clarity over complete generality. Each of its chapters introduces a new mathematical tool - including contracting mappings, semi-algebraic sets, infinite orbits, and Ramsey's theorem, among others - before discussing the game-theoretic results they can be used to obtain. The author assumes no more than a basic undergraduate curriculum and illustrates the theory with numerous examples and exercises, with solutions available online
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 267 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009029704
DOI:10.1017/9781009029704