Game Theory Website Contents

Contents by Section:

• Hypertext Materials on Game Theory and Modeling
• PDF versions of the websites text materials
• Java Simulations

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• Thanks & Reflections
• Logbook of Recent Changes
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Hypertext Materials on Game Theory and Modeling

1. Overview of this Site

2. Modeling Behavior:A Comparison of Optimality and Game Theory

3. Game Theory and EvolutionaryStable Strategies

• A Short-Cut for Finding Out if a Strategy is an ESS
• Discussion of Hypertext Questions

4. A Simple Two-StrategyGame: Hawks and Doves

• Hawks and Doves Simulation
• Discussion of HvD Hypertext Questions

5. Ownership: the BourgeoisStrategy

• Run the Bourgeois, Hawks and Doves Simulation
• Discussion of Hypertext Questions

6. Conflicts Without Fighting: Waiting Games ("Wars of Attrition")

• Part1: Introduction to Wars of Attrition: Fixed Cost Strategies

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• Part 2: The Mixed ESS Solution to the War of Attrition

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• Instructions for the War of Attrition Simulations

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• Supplementary materials for the war of attrition

General Reference and WebLinks

Ref. 1. Glossary of Terms(as a separate window)

Ref. 2: Literature Cited

Ref. 3. Supplementary Materials on Evolution, Selection and Games:

• How to Calculate Frequencies
• About Fitness and Calculations of Evolutionary Changes
• Using the Columns of the Payoff Matrix to Find a Pure ESS
• A Non-Game Example of Frequency-
  Dependent Selection

Ref. 4. Supplementary Materialfor theWar of Attrition:

• Bishop-Cannings theorem
• About probability density functions
• An Introduction to Integration and Probability Density Functions (pdf files by Kevin Mitchell)
• About exponential decays
• About Poisson distributions
• An example of the calculation of costs to a variable cost strategist vs. a fixed costs strategist using a discrete technique
• Excel'98 Spread Sheet showing a discrete calculation of the E(mix, fix(x))
• Equation List
• War of Attrition glossary

Ref. 4. Links to Other Sites

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1. General Info, Hardware& Software Requirements

2a. Instructionsfor the Hawks vs. Doves Simulation

2b. Runthe Hawks and Doves Applet

3a. Instructions for the Bourgeois, Hawks and Doves Simulation

3b. Runthe Bourgeois, Hawks and Doves Applet

4a. Instructions for the War of Attrition Simulations

4b. Run the "Warof Attrition" Simulation

5. Stand-Aloneversions of the simulations (requires a Java interpreter -- Mac versionsonly at present)

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Download:

1. Stand-Alone versions of the simulations (requires aJava interpreter -- Mac versions only at present)

2. Text versions of the site produced by Dr. Kevin Mitchell. Both requireAdobe Acrobat, press below to get your free copy:

• PDF version of the entire site A portable textbook like version of the hypertext found at this website.
• PDF treatment of the basics of integration and probability density. An excellent, succinct treatment of these topics.

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Thanks and Reflections

1. Acknowledgements

2. Notes to Instructors

3. Some Reflectionson Websites and Teaching

4. Your Feedback -- Make comments -- maybe get your nameon the acknowledgments list!

5. Fair Use andCopyright

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