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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Cooperative games"”.
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Satisficing Theory and Non-Cooperative Games
… game theory is an alternative to traditional non-cooperative game theory which offers increased flexibility in modeling players' social interactions. However, satisficing players with conflicting attitudes may implement dysfunctional behaviors, leading to poor performance. In this thesis, we …
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Effects of Cooperative Games on the Prosocial Behavior Interactions of Young Children With and Without Impairments
… this study was to determine the extent to which cooperative games promote prosocial behavior interactions of young children with and without impairments and can be used for successful integration. Specific outcomes include: (a) a cooperative games model which can be used as a framework for …
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Long-term power systems integration using OSeMOSYS SAMBA - South America Model Base - and the bargaining power of countries : a cooperative games approach
… in South America. Additionally, using a cooperative games approach, the bargaining power of each country (player) was calculated by applying the Shapley value concept. The proposed methodology may provide important information to support policy makers in international negotiations, thus …
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Unilateral Commitments
The research done in the thesis in within the non-cooperative games on the following three topics: 1) Binary symmetric games. 2) Quality unilateral commitments. 3) Essentializing equilibrium concepts.
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Collaborative Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks for Diffusive Source Estimation
… parameter estimation in a WSN is formulated in a cooperative game-theoretic framework, which addresses the issue of fair resource allocation for estimation task at the Fusion center (FC). The framework allows addressing either resource allocation or commitment for information processing as …
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MAC layer resource allocation algorithms for OFDM/TDMA wireless networks
… of the game under different scenarios for both cooperative and non-cooperative games are studied and the fairness and efficiency of the results are investigated. The results of the proposed algorithms are compared with existing 4G and 802.11n/ac network protocols
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Three essays in collective choice theory
… of social choice theory and the theory of games. In the first essay, we consider the problem of dividing a fixed quantity of a perfectly divisible good among n individuals with single-peaked preferences. We show that the properties of Strategy-proofness, Efficiency, and either Anonymity or …
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Essays on asset market and differential information economies
… sequential trades. This thesis is focused on the cooperative approach to incomplete asset markets and differential information economies. In brief, the thesis can be described as the study of sequential cooperative games. It is motivated by the fact that often, contracts and asset trades are the …
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Distributed learning in games under bounded rationality
… and individualized models. We study both cooperative and non-cooperative games under these dual perspectives of bounded rationality and distributed decision-making. In the cooperative setting, we show that globally stable and efficient outcomes can emerge from fully distributed dynamics. …
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Solving General Game Playing with Incomplete Information Problem using Iterative Tree Search and Language Learning
… of successfully playing incomplete information games without human intervention by just receiving their rules at runtime. Different algorithms (players) have been provided to play games in GGP-II. This research is concerned with three main limitations of algorithms in the literature: …
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Collective dynamics of evolving populations and their strategies with application to medicine
… so that they are, in effect, engaging in a cooperative social game. We show that as a function of the concentration of the nutrients glucose and histidine, the community undergoes a phase transition separating a state in which one strain is dominant to a state which is characterized by …
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Access Games: A Game Theoretic Framework For Fair Bandwidth Sharing In Distributed Systems
… distributed medium access is modeled as a non-cooperative game; designated as the Access Game. A p-CSMA type medium access scenario is proposed for all the users. Therefore, in the Access Game, each user has two actions to choose from: "transmit" and "wait". The outcome of the Access Game and …
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Understanding Social Behaviour - Macaque behaviour in coordination and cooperation games and the encoding of inequity in striatum
Social behaviours have been widely studied in behavioural economics and psychology. However, the origins of these behaviours in the brain are poorly understood. In this dissertation I will discuss two main avenues of study which constituted separate projects during my PhD candidacy. The first …
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Effects of Cooperation and Competition on Preschoolers' Prosociality Toward Third-Parties
… Social interdependence can take different forms: cooperative, competitive, or solitary. This dissertation investigated the influence of these forms of social interdependence on children’s sharing and social inclusion. Past research suggests that cooperative interdependence promotes and competitive …
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Essays in Game Theory and Forest Economics
… applied microeconomics: the first essay is in cooperative game theory, and the second and third essays relate to forest economics. The first chapter studies a class of cooperative games dubbed ``r-essential games''. Cooperative game theory has proposed different notions of powerful players. For …
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Developing and Coordinating Autonomous Agents for Efficient Electricity Markets
Whether for environmental, conservation, efficiency, or economic reasons, developing next generation electric power infrastructure is critical. Temporally relevant, granular data from smart meters provide new opportunities for data-driven management of the power grid. New developments—for example, …
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Radio Resource Allocation in Wireless OFDM Systems
… multi-cell OFDMA systems is formulated as a non-cooperative game and the NE existence is investigated. We propose an algorithm to ensure the convergence of the games and a method to improve system performance with interference avoidance.