Game Theory

Maximizing Your Chances: Playing Tim Hortons’ Roll up to Win is Most Advantageous in the Midnight Hours

Night boosts winning odds. Tim Hortons’ Roll up the Rim contest, a fixture since 1985, remained unchanged for 25 years until 2020. The shift to digital due to the pandemic altered the game. Entries, acquired through purchases, transitioned to the loyalty app for later use, turning into "digital rolls" in the renamed contest, Roll...

Researcher Solves 60-Year-Old Game Theory Problem

Credit: scitechdaily.Researcher solves 60-year-old game theory problem. To comprehend how autonomous vehicles can navigate intricate road scenarios, researchers often employ game theory, a mathematical model depicting the strategic behavior of rational agents to achieve their objectives.Dejan Milutinovic, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has focused on differential games, a...

Insights from Game Theory on Confronting Bullies

Credit: Unsplash.In a world of income inequality and cutthroat politics, individuals wielding outsized power often prevail. However, new research from Dartmouth sheds light on an unexpected approach that can empower those on the weaker side of power dynamics. The study reveals the potential of uncooperative behavior to achieve more equal outcomes and inflict losses on...

How Game Theory Method Boosts Choice Making

Game theory, the investigation of tactical decisions, brings various skills such as math, psychology, and point of view together. Game theory was created by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in 1944 and has traveled a long way ever since. The worth of game theory for decision making and evaluation today can be assessed...

Using Squid Game to Teach Economics

Teaching with Squid GameFirst-year business and economics students throughout the globe might in the future be using Netflix's international hit series "Squid Game" to learn intricate economic concepts.A new article by the Monash Business School has shown how incorporating the hit dystopian series "Squid Game" techniques can reinvent how students learn Game Theory, one...

AI Programmers Typically Ignore Security in Search of Innovation– How Do We Regulate Them Without Obstructing Progression?

AI Programmers Typically Ignore Security in Search of Innovation-- How Should We Regulate Them Without Obstructing Progression?Ever since artificial intelligence (AI) transitioned from concept to reality, r&d centers throughout the world have been rushing to find the next big innovation in AI.This competition is, in some cases, called the "AI race." However, in practice,...

What is Game Theory

In mathematics sense, a game is a setting in which players make reasoned choices according to definite rules in order to gain some kind of advantage. Game theory is the field of mathematics that focuses on the analysis of such video games. Game theory can be broken down into two principal sub-disciplines: classical game...

What Game Theory Tells us About Politics and Society

The concept of game theory is used by economist Alexander Wolitzky to model social dynamics, networks, and groups.Alexander Wolitzky leans back in his workplace chair, stops briefly, and begins to define "Cycles of Dispute: An Economic Design," a journal write-up he co-authored.In his office chair, Alexander Wolitzky leans back, pauses, and starts to describe...

Examining the Competition Between Autonomous Vehicles and Public Transit

Recent rapid advancements in autonomous car technology have changed global transportation infrastructure and consumer behavior. As the number of autonomous cars increases across the globe, a rise in shared self-governing mobility on demand (AMoD) services is likely to follow. The issue of whether AMoD would coexist with or pose a threat to the public...