Game Theory Evolving

[Nick Thompson]

Owen (and perhaps others)

So are you bashing at the first chapter?  

Here's how I understand a strictly dominant strategy.

If you and I are players in a two player game with n different strategies,
then

Strategy S2 is strictly dominant for you, if picking S2 will miximize your
return for any particular move by me.  

Strategy S1 is strictly dominant for me, if your picking S1 and your having
picked S2 in response maximizes my return.  

The cell S1/S2 is a Nash Equilibrium if in the S1 column there is no value
greater for me other than the S1/S2 cell, and also in the S2 row, there is
no value greater for you than that in the S1/s2 cell

Do I have this NEAR right????

Nick


> [Original Message]
> From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
> To: <nickthompson at earthlink.net>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>

> Date: 8/10/2006 11:59:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Game Theory Evolving
>
> Oops, *blush* .. sorry!
>
> I've read the start of Game Theory Evolving, and plan to complete the  
> Whole Damn Thing.  None of the others though.
>
>      -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore
> http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>
> > Owen,
> >
> > Game Theory Evolving.  (It was in the subject line.)
> >
> > Have you read any of the others????
> >
> > N
> >

[Frank Wimberly]

Nick,

There is an old OR text that explains all this very clearly.  See if you
can get "Operations Research:  Applications and Algorithms" by Winston.
See if Clark's library has it.  It's too expensive to buy.

Frank

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-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:38 PM
To: Owen Densmore; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Cc: lrudolph; echarles; Jkennison; sbarr
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Game Theory Evolving

Owen (and perhaps others)

So are you bashing at the first chapter?  

Here's how I understand a strictly dominant strategy.

If you and I are players in a two player game with n different
strategies,
then

Strategy S2 is strictly dominant for you, if picking S2 will miximize
your
return for any particular move by me.  

Strategy S1 is strictly dominant for me, if your picking S1 and your
having
picked S2 in response maximizes my return.  

The cell S1/S2 is a Nash Equilibrium if in the S1 column there is no
value
greater for me other than the S1/S2 cell, and also in the S2 row, there
is
no value greater for you than that in the S1/s2 cell

Do I have this NEAR right????

Nick


> [Original Message]
> From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
> To: <nickthompson at earthlink.net>; The Friday Morning Applied
Complexity
Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> Date: 8/10/2006 11:59:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Game Theory Evolving
>
> Oops, *blush* .. sorry!
>
> I've read the start of Game Theory Evolving, and plan to complete the

> Whole Damn Thing.  None of the others though.
>
>      -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore
> http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>
> > Owen,
> >
> > Game Theory Evolving.  (It was in the subject line.)
> >
> > Have you read any of the others????
> >
> > N
> >

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