| Stochastic Games and Applications 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Neyman, Abraham (Editor), Sorin, S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1402014929 ISBN-13: 9781402014925 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Game Theory - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Social Science |
| Dewey: 519.3 |
| LCCN: 2003058888 |
| Series: NATO Science Series C: |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.6" W x 9.58" (1.94 lbs) 473 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This volume is based on lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Stochastic Games and Applications," which took place at Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 1999. It gives the editors great pleasure to present it on the occasion of L.S. Shapley's eightieth birthday, and on the fiftieth "birthday" of his seminal paper "Stochastic Games," with which this volume opens. We wish to thank NATO for the grant that made the Institute and this volume possible, and the Center for Game Theory in Economics of the State University of New York at Stony Brook for hosting this event. We also wish to thank the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, for providing continuing financial support, without which this project would never have been completed. In particular, we are grateful to our editorial assistant Mike Borns, whose work has been indispensable. We also would like to acknowledge the support of the Ecole Poly tech- nique, Paris, and the Israel Science Foundation. March 2003 Abraham Neyman and Sylvain Sorin ix STOCHASTIC GAMES L.S. SHAPLEY University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, USA 1. Introduction In a stochastic game the play proceeds by steps from position to position, according to transition probabilities controlled jointly by the two players. |