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=Game Theory Research (Research Methods) (GWU EMSE 216-8000)=

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No immmediately obvious Wikipedia link for Game Theory Research. Saw link to Game Theory in the Decision Theory page. Like the 1sts sentence in the 2nd paragraph as a better 1st sentence from an EMSE 8000 relevance perspective. What should the short EMSE 8000 description be?

"**Game theory** is a branch of [|applied mathematics] that is used in the [|social sciences], most notably in [|economics], as well as in [|biology] (particularly [|evolutionary biology] and [|ecology]), [|engineering], [|political science], [|international relations], [|computer science], [|social psychology], [|philosophy] and [|management]. Game theory attempts to mathematically capture behavior in strategic situations, or //[|games]//, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others (Myerson, 1991)." ... "Traditional applications of game theory attempt to find equilibria in these games. In an [|equilibrium], each player of the game has adopted a strategy that they are unlikely to change." - [|Wikipedia]

What is different from Game Theory Research and Game Theory, if anything?


 * Background: "While initially developed to analyze competitions in which one individual does better at another's expense ([|zero sum games]), it has been expanded to treat a wide class of interactions, which are classified according to several [|criteria]. Today, "game theory is a sort of umbrella or 'unified field' theory for the rational side of social science, where 'social' is interpreted broadly, to include human as well as non-human players (computers, animals, plants)" ([|Aumann 1987])." - [|Wikipedia]
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 * Perhaps summaries of the finding in the topic papers for EMSE 8000

Wikipedia has See Also and plenty of references.


 * Sources**
 * EMSE 8000, Spring 2011
 * Game theory. (2011, January 22). In //Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia//. Retrieved 15:22, January 29, 2011, from []

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