GAME THEORY

Abstract

An introduction to the principles of game theory is presented through the following examples and discussions: matching pennies, modified matching game, a game of ruin, noisy duel, silent duel, some definitions and formal results, attacking targets of unequal importance, the trader and the cannibal, two-person non-zero sum games, n-person games (the princess and her three suitors, the bankruptcy court, a pure coalition game, the community of Shangri- La, games of deterence).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 30, 1957
Accession Number
AD0606530

Entities

People

  • Herman Kahn
  • Irwin Mann

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter IED
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Commerce
  • Communities
  • Deterrence
  • Dynamite
  • Errors
  • Game Theory
  • Mathematics
  • Military Planning
  • Money
  • Operations Research
  • Political Science
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Probability Distributions
  • Social Sciences
  • Theorems

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Game Theory.