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Author Luce, R. Duncan (Robert Duncan)

Title Games and decisions : introduction and critical survey / R. Duncan Luce, Howard Raiffa.

Publication Info. New York : Dover Publications, [1989]
©1957

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  519.3 L963g 1989    ---  Available
Description xix, 509 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Note Reprint. Originally published: New York : Wiley, 1957.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-499) and index.
Contents General Introduction to the Theory of Games -- Utility Theory -- Extensive and Normal Forms -- Two-Person Zero-Sum Games -- Two-Person Non-Zero-Sum Non-Cooperative Games -- Two-Person Cooperative Games -- Theories of n-Person Games in Normal Form -- Characteristic Functions -- Solutions -- psi-Stability -- Reasonable Outcomes and Value -- Applications of n-Person Theory -- Individual Decision Making under Uncertainty -- Group Decision Making -- Appendices : 1. A Probabilistic Theory of Utility -- 2. The Minimax Theorem -- 3. First Geometrical Interpretation of a Two-Person Zero-Sum Game -- 4. Second Geometrical Interpretation of a Two-Person Zero-Sum Game -- 5. Linear Programing and Two-Person Zero-Sum Games -- 6. Solving Two-Person Zero-Sum Games -- 7. Games with Infinite Pure Strategy Sets -- 8. Sequential Compounding of Two-Person Games.
Subject Game theory.
Game theory. (OCoLC)fst00937501
Added Author Raiffa, Howard, 1924-2016.
ISBN 0486659437
9780486659435

 
    
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