New Perspectives on Games and Interaction

by Apt, Krzysztof R.; Van Rooij, Robert

• ISBN13: 9789089640574
• ISBN10: 9089640576
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Amsterdam Univ Pr

Summary

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 2007 colloquium on new perspectives on games and interaction at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam. This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 2007 colloquium on new perspectives on games and interaction at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam. The purpose of the colloquium was to clarify the uses of the concepts of game theory, and to identify promising new directions. This important collection testifies to the growing importance of game theory as a tool to capture the concepts of strategy, interaction, argumentation, communication, cooperation and competition. Also, it provides evidence for the richness of game theory and for its impressive and growing application.

Author Biography

Krzysztof Apt is professor of computer science and Robert van Rooij is a senior staff member at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

In 2007 at the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam, a colloquium on new perspectives on games and interaction brought together researchers on games in logic, computer science, linguistics, and economics in order to clarify their uses of game theory and identify promising new directions for the field.

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the colloquium, and it testifies to the growing importance of game theory as a tool that can capture concepts of strategy, interaction, argumentation, communication, and cooperation amid the disciplines

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