This book brings together in an efficient and unified way virtually all that has been learned about this intriguing class of games since its appearance on the scene in 1979. The game on discrete sets is reduced to minimal strategy sets on which the payoff matrix has a canonical structure, and...

A Silverman game is a two-person zero-sum game defined in terms of two sets S I and S II of positive numbers, and two parameters, the threshold T 1 and the penalty v 0. Players I and II independently choose numbers from S I and S II, respectively. The higher number wins 1, unless it is at...

This book provides insights that are useful for people with interests in Operations Research, statistics and econometrics. Each contribution offers a snapshot out from interesting topics. The relationships and interconnectivities between decisions and models from different economic fields lead...

This book is written for those seeking a decision theory appropriate for use in serious choices such as insurance. It employs stages of knowledge ahead to track satisfactions and dissatisfactions. From experimental and questionnaire data, people take into account such stages of knowledge ahead...

Das vorliegende Buch vermittelt alle wesentlichen, in den wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Studienrichtungen benötigten mathematischen Kenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der Linearen Algebra, Analysis und Optimierung. Für das Verständnis sind keine über die Grundrechenarten hinausgehenden...