The principles of game theory, particularly the theory of repeated interactions, proved remarkably useful in formulating general principles of how common resources ought to be managed without necessarily resorting to private or state ownership.
We quickly realized that technically what we had engineered was out of the reach of most individuals and many nonprofits and that most didn't understand the basic game-theory of crowd-sourced fund raising.
In the game theory of things, we assumed there was some probability Sony would match us, and probably a higher probability Sony would come later.
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Dr Meyer's flight of fancy shows that such computers could also operate comfortably in the area of game theory, with all that implies for modelling complex systems and, presumably, for games themselves.
The philosopher in John Harsanyi saw in game theory a means of improving the human condition.
In particular Roth uses the mathematical tools of game theory to find fixes for big, broken systems.
The papal election resembles how decisions were made in Europe some 700 years ago, before elected monarchies were replaced by hereditary monarchies, says Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, professor of politics at New York University who uses a computer model based on game theory to predict the outcome of elections.
By the 1980s game theory was considered a strain of economics.
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Guessing the final outcome will exercise even devoted students of game theory.
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The prize for putting your money where your mouth is, though, went to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, who uses a branch of mathematics called game theory to predict the political future.
Retail pricing is very much part of game theory and seeing this in the raw, rather than in simulated experiments, could be a very useful data set to mine to work out more about how such game theory applies in the real world.
But game-theory software can also work well outside the sphere of economics.
Meritocracy is impossible in theory or practice without social structures that set and enforce sportsmanlike rules of the game.
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The savviest nonprofits won't cross their fingers and hope the next generation finds them, they'll use new tools and new game-theory to reach supporters, quickly leaving behind the gross inefficiencies of expensive dinner-plate events.
The cold calculation of national interests is a complex business, as any student of game theory can tell you.
Roth's specialty within operations research: game theory, which analyzes situations in which the outcome depends on the actions of multiple people.
His thought experiment suggests that researchers in the small but potentially significant field of quantum computing should be turning their attentions to game theory.
"He uses very rigorous game theory, " attests MIT economics professor Parag Pathak, the former student of Roth's who worked on the New York City match project.
To suggest, as Lowenstein does, that the arguments for prosecution hinge on a theory of causality is not merely to move the goal posts, but to play a different game altogether.
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The results they are gathering will give them new insights into game theory, that little corner of mathematics where games and economics collide, and which can be found behind everything from corporate bargaining to the 1950s arms race.
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My theory on why sales of the Madden franchise have declined is both counterintuitive and quite simple: the game became TOO good and TOO realistic.
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It is astonishing to me that, although I had no knowledge of game theory when I was writing my novels and even though the field did not exist at the time.
Desperate for a way to show the pipelines they were better off together, an Aerie executive used game theory to design a mock online auction of rights-of-way.
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