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 Evolutionary Stable Strategies

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

4. A Simple Two-Strategy Game: Hawks and Doves

• Hawks and Doves Simulation
• Discussion of HvD Hypertext Questions

5. Ownership: the Bourgeois Strategy

• 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 Web Links

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 Material for 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. Instructions for the Hawks vs. Doves Simulation

2b. Run the Hawks and Doves Applet

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

3b. Run the Bourgeois, Hawks and Doves Applet

4a. Instructions for the War of Attrition Simulations

4b. Run the "War of Attrition" Simulation

5. Stand-Alone versions of the simulations (requires a Java interpreter -- Mac versions only at present)

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Download:

1. The entire website (for off-line use or revision). (available soon)

2. Stand-Alone versions of the simulations (requires a Java interpreter -- Mac versions only at present)

3. Text versions of the site produced by Dr. Kevin Mitchell. Both require Adobe 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.

4. Download sites for Browsers, Compression Utilities, and Java run-time engines. (available soon)

4. For Developers: How to Obtain a Copy of the Source Code

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Thanks and Reflections

1. Acknowledgements

2. Notes to Instructors

3. Some Reflections on Websites and Teaching

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

5. Fair Use and Copyright

6. Links to Materials on Copyright and Scientific Publication

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