SICCSE Special Session (2003-02-20, Reno, NV)
Everything you always wanted to know about game theory*
*...but were afraid to ask
Slides & Handouts
Dan Garcia
ddgarcia@cs.berkeley.edu
David Ginat
ginat@post.tau.ac.il
Peter Henderson
phenders@butler.edu
Overview, Combinatorial & Computational GT
Combinatorial GT Examples
2-Person games, Economic GT
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Resources (
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he best are
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Combinatorial
Beasley, John D.
The Mathematics of Games
. Oxford University Press, 1989.
Berlekemp, E., Conway, J., and Guy, R.
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays
, Volume 1 & 2. Academic Press Inc., 1982.
Conway, John "On Numbers and Games" Academic Press, London/NY, 1976
Nowakowski, R.
Games of No Chance
. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Nowakowski, R.
More Games of No Chance
. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Cut-the-knot
-- Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
Prof. Elwyn Berlekamp
-- Premier combinatorial GT researcher in the United States. He maintains a
What's HOT in GT
site.
Prof. David Wolfe
-- Combinatorial GT researcher, protegé of Prof. Berlekamp
Computational
Bell, R. C.
Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations
. Oxford University Press, 1979.
Bell, R. C.
The Boardgame Book
. Exeter Books, 1983.
Bell, R and Cornelius, M.
Board Games Round the World
: A Resource Book for Mathematical Investigations. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Brandreth, Gyles.
The World's Best Indoor Games
. Pantheon Books, 1981.
GAMESMAN
-- Dan's Computational GT Software (written in C and Tcl/Tk)
GamesCrafters
-- Dan's Computational GT undergraduate research group
Shall We Play a Game?
-- Dan's Nifty Assignment presented at SIGCSE 2002
Economic
Binmore, K. Fun and Games:
A Text on Game Theory
. D. C. Heath and Company, 1992.
Singleton, Robert R. and Tyndall, William F.
Games and Programs: Mathematics for Modeling
. W. H. Freeman and Company, 1974.
Williams, J. D.
The Compleat Strategyst
. Dover Publications, Inc., 1982.
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