دانلود کتاب نظریه بازی‌ها و کاربردهای آن، ویرایش دوم

The authors of this book had several decades of research in different areas of game theory until themid-1990s,when they met in a conference in Odense, Denmark. Since then they work together on oligopolies and different dynamic economic systems and meet at least once every year in Tokyo and either in Tucson, Arizona or in Budapest and Pécs, Hungary. This book has two origins. First, it is based on game theory short courses presented in several countries including Japan, Hungary, China, and Taiwan among others. The second author introduced and taught for several years a one-semester graduate-level game theory course at the Eötvös University of Sciences and at the University of Arizona for students in engineering and management. The class notes of that course is the second origin of this book. The objective of this book is to introduce the readers into the main concepts, methods, and applications of game theory, the subject, which has continuously increasing importance in applications in many fields of quantitative sciences including economics, social science, engineering, biology, etc. The wide variety of applications are illustrated with the particular examples introduced in the second and third chapters as well as with the case studies of the last chapters. After the first edition of this book was published, the authors continued their joint research and teaching game theory that resulted in ideas of new interesting applications, examples, and some additional theoretical issues. They are added into this second edition. We strongly recommend this book to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners in all fields of quantitative science where decision problems might arise involving more than one decision makers, stakeholders, or interest groups. As we will see later in the different chapters, the most appropriate solution concept and the corresponding solution methodology for any problem is a function of the behavior of the decision makers and their interrelationships, and the available information. So before applying any method from this book, these conditions have to be examined. Then the most appropriate method has to be selected and applied to get the solution, which has to be then interpreted and applied in practice. We sincerely hope that this book will help the readers to understand the main concepts and methodology of game theory, it will help to select the most appropriate model, solution concept, and method, and to use the obtained result in applying it in their practical problems. The authors are thankful to the Department of Economics of Chuo University, Tokyo, as well as the Mathematics Department of the Corvinus University of Budapest for their hospitality during the joint works of the authors. The support of the Applied Mathematics Department of the University of Pécs, Hungary, is also appreciated. In addition, the authors wish to express their special thanks to Dr. Mark Molnar at ELTE GTK, Budapest, for the assistance in preparing the manuscript and the final edited version of this book.