Stochastic Games and Applications: 570 (Nato Science Series C:, 570) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1402014929 ISBN 13: 9781402014925

Publisher: Springer, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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Collects the 30 lectures delivered during the July 1999 NATO advanced study institute on the rules, theorems, models, and applications of stochastic games. The longest paper proves the existence of subgame-perfect equilibria for discounted stochastic games with general state and action sets using minimal assumptions. Other papers discuss stationary

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402014929
• ISBN 13: 9781402014925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 482
• Editor: Neyman Abraham, Sorin S.