Introduction in Game Theory

Curricula
FCS

Code: INF8OP334I | Semester: 8th | Credits: 7 | Type: optional

Assistent Professor: Rodica Mariana Brânzei

Teaching hours/week: Course lectures: 3, Seminars: 2

Evaluation: In progress: projects (computer tests) | Final exam: written test (E)

Objectives:

Study of mathematical models of competition and cooperation and corresponding algorithms.

Description:

Overview of game theory field. Games in strategic form and Nash equillibrium. Transferable Utility (TU) cooperative games: classical solution concepts, simple games, convex games. Games in economic situations. NTU-games and related values. Information, cooperation and communication: information collecting (IC) and information sharing (IS) situations and games. Algorithms for computing game theoretic solution concepts.

Pre-requested courses: compulsory: Probabilistics and Statistics, Graphs Algorithms.

Bibliography:

• G.Owen - Teoria jocurilor, Ed.Tehnica, Bucuresti, 1974

• G.Owen - Discrete Mathematics and Game Theory, Kluwer Academic Publ., vol.22, 1999

• F.Patrone, I.G.Jurado, S.Tijs (eds.) - Game Practice: Contributions from Applied Game Theory, Kluwer Academic Publ., vol.23, 2000

• S.Tijs - Game Theory, Katholicke Universiteit Brabant, 1997