Stochastic games are have an element of chance: the state of the next round is determined probabilistically depending upon players' actions and the current state. Successful players need to balance the need for short-term payoffs while ensuring future opportunities remain high. The various...

Introduction: Embedded Trust -- Social Network Analysis and Game Theory: Basic Concepts and Assumptions -- A Game-theoretic Model for Control Effects in Social Networks -- A Stochastic Model for Information Diffusion in Social Networks -- Contracting in Information Technology Transactions: A...

The Essence of Negotiation -- Exogenous disagreement outcomes -- The Alternating Offers Procedure -- The Nash Program -- Comprehensive Bargaining Problems -- Comparative Statics -- A Bargaining Model with Threats -- Endogenous Threats -- Commitment and Endogenous Threats -- Bargaining over Wages...

Optimization Theory and Algorithms -- On the Asymptotic Behavior of a System of Steepest Descent Equations Coupled by a Vanishing Mutual Repulsion -- Inverse Linear Programming -- Second-Order Conditions in C1,1 Vector Optimization with Inequality and Equality Constraints -- Benson Proper...