ECE 586TB

Fall 2008

Useful Information

Office hours: Only by appointment

Exams, homeworks, and grading :

1. Homework problems will be assigned on a regular basis throughout the semester (by posting at the course web site), to be handed in at the beginning of class on the date due. Solutions to the assigned problems will be provided. No late homeworks will be accepted.

2. Also a term project will be assigned, covering topics not included in the main lectures, such as those listed on the main course web site. More details will be given toward the middle of the semester.

3. There will be a Midterm Exam, scheduled for Thursday, October 16, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm, in 141 CSL.

Other Texts

Below is a selected list of texts (other than the required two and the recommended one) relevant to the subject matter of this course

• J. Aubin, Mathematical Methods of Game and Economic Theory, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1980.

• K. Binmore, Fun and Games, D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1992.

• D. Blackwell and M. A. Girshick, Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions, Wiley, New York, NY, 1954.

• A. Blaquiere, F. Gerard, and G. Leitmann, Quantitative and Qualitative Games, Academic Press, 1969.

• A. Friedman, Differential Games, John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY, 1971.

• J. W. Friedman, Oligopoly and the Theory of Games, North-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1977.

• S. Gal, Search games, Academic Press, New York, 1980.

• O. Hajek, Pursuit Games, Academic Press, New York and London, 1975.

• N. Howard, Paradoxes of Rationality: Theory of Metagames and Political Behavior, MIT Press, 1971.

• R. Isaacs, Differential Games, Kruger, NY, 2nd ed., 1975 (First edition: Wiley, NY, 1965).

• S. Karlin, Matrix Games, Programming and Mathematical Economics, vols. I, II, Addison-Wesley, 1959.

• D. Kreps, Game Theory and Economic Modelling, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1990.

• H. W. Kuhn and G. P. Szego, eds., Differential Games and Related Topics, North-Holland, 1971.

• H. W. Kuhn and A. W. Tucker, eds., Contributions to the Theory of Games, I-II, Ann. of Math. Statist. No. 24, 28 Princeton University Press, 1950, 1953.

• G. Leitmann, Cooperative and Noncooperative Many Player Differential Games, vol. 190 of CISM Monograph Series, Springer, Vienna, 1974.

• J. Lewin, Differential Games: Theory and Methods for Solving Game Problems with Singular Surfaces, Springer, 1994.

• R. D. Luce and H. Raiffa, Games and Decisions, John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY, 1957.

• J. McKinsey, Introduction to the Theory of Games, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 1952.

• R. B. Myerson, Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict, Harvard University Press, 1991.

• T. Parthasarathy and T. Raghavan, Some Topics in Two-person Games, Elsevier, New York, NY, 1971.

• W. Poundstone, Prisoner's Dilemma, Doubleday, New York, NY, 1992.

• M. Shubik, Game Theory in the Social Sciences, MIT Press, 1983.

• J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2nd ed., 1947 (first edition: 1944).

• N. H. Vorob'ev, Game Theory, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1977.

• J. D. Williams, The Compleat Strategyst, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 1954.