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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"evolutionary game theory"”.
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Essays in Evolutionary Game Theory
This thesis contains three essays in evolutionary game theory. In the first chapter, we study the impact of switching costs on the long run outcome in 2X2 coordination games played in the circular city model of local interactions. We find that for low levels of switching costs, the risk dominant …
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Spatio-Temporal Patterns, Correlations, and Disorder in Evolutionary Game Theory
Evolutionary game theory originated from the application of mathematical game theory to biological studies. Well-known examples in evolutionary game theory are the prisoner's dilemma, predator-prey models, the rock-paper-scissors game, etc. Recently, such well-known models have attracted increased …
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Climbing Mount Probable
… between natural selection, information theory, and statistical inference. In particular, a geometric formulation of information theory known as information geometry and its deep connections to evolutionary game theory inform the role of natural selection in evolutionary processes. The …
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Mathematical models in evolutionary dynamics
We consider two mathematical models in evolutionary dynamics. The first model is an extension of an evolutionary game theory model proposed by Martin Nowak. We consider both a mean field deterministic approach and a weak noise stochastic approach, but the focus is on latter which is an uncommon …
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On Distinguishing the Meaningless from the Meaningful: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach to Ruth Millikan\'s Teleosemantics
… with reference to the history of the term. Using evolutionary game theory, I offer a way to clarify the distinction between the meaningless and the meaningful. I reject the possibility of correlating meaning with an evolutionarily stable strategy as this does not seem to be consistent with how …
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Social Behaviours on Multilayer Networks
… hence the work is mainly focused on studying the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation and social behaviours on a multilayer social network. Following a Bio-inspired approach, the social network analysis methodologies, and exploiting the mathematical framework of Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT), the …
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Collective dynamics of evolving populations and their strategies with application to medicine
… Population dynamics of viruses and their hosts, game theory and the social life of micro-organisms, a novel mechanism enhancing cooperation in evolutionary game theory, and evolutionary robust strategies for delivery of antibiotics. In the first project, starting with stochastic rate equations …
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Making Sense of Unexpected Preferences
… actors will or actually do hold when existing theory offers no insight. The first two papers use evolutionary game theory to predict ways in which politicians, artificially selected on the basis of good performance to remain in office, will in the long run diverge from instrumental rationality …
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Market-Based Coordination and Auditing Mechanisms for Self-Interested Multi-Robot Systems
… The analysis and simulations of the evolutionary game theory on the behaviors of peers or robots suggest that the auditing mechanism can discourage free-riding and cheating attempts effectively without harming the popularity of systems with auditing mechanisms. The analysis shows that …
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Modeling and analysis of market share dynamics in a duopoly subject to affine feedback advertising policies and delays
… based on the replicator-mutator model from evolutionary game theory. This is done by identifying strategies with the entries of a preference matrix consisting of the choice preferences of firms by clients and the mutation matrix representing transition probabilities from one set of clients …
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Fault-tolerant wireless sensor networks using evolutionary games
… and ecological systems, particularly by evolutionary game theory. In this approach, a virtual community of agents live inside the network nodes and carry out network functions. The agents use different strategies to execute their functions, and these strategies are tested and selected by …
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Phenotypic heterogeneity and evolutionary games in microbial populations
… mixed strategy (or mixed ESS), from the field of evolutionary game theory. In a mixed ESS, phenotypic heterogeneity is a result of competitive interactions between cells in the population rather than a response to uncertain environments, so unlike with bet-hedging, in a mixed ESS the evolutionary …
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Human Behavior in Epidemic Modelling
… as well. The proposed models are based on an evolutionary game theory framework. Considering dynamical games allows explicitly modeling the coupled dynamics of disease transmission and human behavioral changes. Specifically, the information diffusion is modeled through an imitation process in …
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Power allocation for cooperative wireless networks
… distributions and we employ convex optimization, evolutionary game theory and numerical analytical methods in our investigations. From our work we find that the performance of a cooperative system is sensitive both to the user behaviour and the available cooperation opportunities. By considering …
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Distributed learning in games under bounded rationality
… 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. Focusing on (i) Transferable …
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Essays in applied microeconomics and networks
… probability of asthma. Finally, Chapter 3 is an evolutionary game theory paper about population structure. We provide a general, modularity-based framework for studying evolutionary games on structured populations under 'weak selection' that includes many previously known results as special …
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Adoption of innovations: modelling the interplay of behavioural biases, incentives and network structure
… analytical methodologies, such as classic game theory or dynamic programming used in the field, prove to be limiting. Thus, I introduce a novel analytical methodology called evolutionary game theory. I propose a series of evolutionary game theoretic models in the following chapters to give …
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Interactions between neighbouring plants
… between neighbouring plants by looking at theory and models used in the study of wild plants with a view to applying them in the design of agroforests. In Part I difficulties of designing mixed crop stands are considered. Grime's model of the ecological strategies pursued by wild plants is …
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An empirical and theoretical investigation of kleptoparasitic foraging behaviour in mixed-species aggregations of gulls (Laridae)
… using a compartmental modelling approach from evolutionary game theory and to test this using real foraging data. Fieldwork was undertaken at two study sites: a coastal site (Brancaster beach, Norfolk, UK) and an urban site (Billingsgate Market, London, UK). The focal species were the Great …
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