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.
Their model is revolutionary as it makes use of game theory in conjunction with crowdfunding campaigns.
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In particular Roth uses the mathematical tools of game theory to find fixes for big, broken systems.
The cold calculation of national interests is a complex business, as any student of game theory can tell you.
As often happens when an idea becomes fashionable, there has been some argument about who first thought of game theory.
Guessing the final outcome will exercise even devoted students of game theory.
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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
The philosopher in John Harsanyi saw in game theory a means of improving the human condition.
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.
Some of these have influenced game theory, which originally provided Ms Ostrom with her analytical tools.
By the 1980s game theory was considered a strain of economics.
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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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Game theory essentially tells scientists what kind of biases people have and what they might do when their fate is determined by the choices of others.
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Players of poker, and of course chess, had been using game theory without calling it that.
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.
His thought experiment suggests that researchers in the small but potentially significant field of quantum computing should be turning their attentions to game theory.
Meritocracy is impossible in theory or practice without social structures that set and enforce sportsmanlike rules of the game.
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But game-theory software can also work well outside the sphere of economics.
Future lawyers must also be capable of connecting law with collateral disciplines ranging from corporate finance to game theory to cognitive psychology.
Instead of simply asking what another party is planning to do, game theory encourages managers to ask what is in the other's best interest.
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.
Roth's specialty within operations research: game theory, which analyzes situations in which the outcome depends on the actions of multiple people.
"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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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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