Game Theory with Engineering Applications

This unique book addresses the foundations of game theory, with an emphasis on the physical intuition behind the concepts, an analysis of design techniques, and a discussion of new trends in the study of cooperation and competition in large complex distributed systems.

Audience: This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in industrial, aeronautical, manufacturing, civil, mechanical, chemical, and electrical engineering. It is also designed for social scientists interested in quantitative methods for sociotechnical systems, biologists working on adaptation mechanisms and evolutionary dynamics, and physicists working on collective systems and synchronization phenomena.

Contents: List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Algorithms; Preface; List of Notation; Part I: Theory; Chapter 1: Introduction to Games; Chapter 2: Two-Person Zero-Sum Games; Chapter 3: Computation of Saddle-Points and Nash Equilibrium Solutions; Chapter 4: Refinement on Nash equilibrium Solutions, Stackelberg Equilibrium, and Pareto Optimality; Chapter 5: Coalitional Games; Chapter 6: Core, Shaply Value, Nucleolus; Chapter 7: Evolutionary Game Theory; Chapter 8: Replicator Dynamics and Learning in Games; Chapter 9: Differential Games; Chapter 10: Stochastic Games; Chapter 11: Games with Vector Payoffs: Approachability and Attainability; Chapter 12: Mean-Field Games; Part II: Applications; Chapter 13: Cons