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Game theory
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WikiProject on Game theory

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This project is designed to coordinate efforts on Wikipedia pages pertaining to Game theory. This is an interdisciplinary study encompassing Mathematics, Economics, Political science, Psychology, Biology, Computer science and Philosophy. All participants are welcome!

[edit] Related WikiProjects and Wikiportals

Since game theory is used by many different disciplines, it is related to many different wikiprojects. Ones with whom we have overlapping interest are:

[edit] Announcements

  • My name is Adam Kalai and I am a professor at Georgia Tech. I am teaching a graduate class in Game Theory. As part of the final, I have asked each student to create/improve a wikipedia entry on game theory. I hope they have done a good job! 4 May, 2004.
  • I have nominated List of games in game theory for a featured list. Unfortunately, not many people want to review it. Would people involved in this project mind chiming in one way or another? --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 03:13, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I am working on material for an undergraduate course on decision theory and game theory that develops the math as needed through actual problems encountered in applications throughout the social sciences. When it fills out, it's to be suitable for an audience without a social science background and little math background, up to upper level econ students who use game theory as a primary tool. (My actual class requires one calc class.) Look at the evolving wiki Self Interest and Social Behavior [1] and contribute if you wish. (As a guest, add "— Your Name" at the end of any page that you modify.) Dan Alger 13 June 2006
  • Our article Game theory has now joined Prisoner's dilemma and Rock, Paper, Scissors as a Featured Article. Congrats everyone! --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 16:10, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
*high five* good work Kevin. Pete.Hurd 16:23, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Wow! They even beat out Deep Throat and Masturbation! *shakes head in disbelief* ...kids today... Pete.Hurd 02:24, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

If you are interested in joining, please add yourself to the list and say something about yourself!

  • Dali-Llama- Studied game theory at Harvard and fell in love with it. But don't worry: I failed the course!
  • Bigdaddy1981 - currently SAS programmer, studied game theory as post grad in UK.
  • Robert Illes - Studied math and computer science at the Eötvös University in Budapest and at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
  • Kzollman I am a graduate student in philosophy with interests in game theory
  • Wang.Zhijian.Zju I am a researcher from icss, Zhejiang University, China. We (with Prof. Xu Bin) are now doing public good game experiments in a university in Hangzhou.
  • Isomorphic - I took quite a bit of game theory while studying economics as an undergrad.
  • Ilmari Karonen • I am a math undergrad contemplating doing my thesis in game theory.
  • Pete Hurd - I am a biologist studying communication from a game theory perspective.
  • Martin - The non-blue non-moose 10:38, 31 August 2005 (UTC) - Economics graduate.
  • Omer Moussaffi - I am doing my graduate thesis in games theory at the Hebrew University. Especially interested in what games theory has to say about decision proccesses.
  • Vonaurum - I am an undergraduate student in Computer Science.
  • User:Christopherparham - Undergraduate in government and economics.
  • Smmurphy 05:17, 29 October 2005 (UTC) - connections to fuzzy sets, modeling behavior
  • Andrew Clausen - I am a first year PhD student in economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • CSMR - PhD student at Princeton in game theory; may be able to make some comments and corrections here and there.
  • Khamsin - I'm actually one of Pete.Hurd's graduate students, studying game theory models of communication.
  • MegamanZero I am a Junior in High school with extreme intrest and knowlegde in game theory; I study programming.
  • Michael Rogers - I'm a PhD student working on applications of evolutionary game theory to computer networks
  • Quarl (talk)
  • radek - I'm finishing up a PhD in economics
  • EnumaElish - I am an econ PhD
  • Edivorce - lawyer with interest in dispute resolution
  • DDG - B.A. in Economics with an interest in Game Theory and Rational Choice.
  • s.lauermann - I am an econ PhD with interest in Micro Theory
  • Loom91 - Ameteur Game Theory enthusisist. I feel ashamed adding my name to this list of people with high qualifications as I'm not yet out of High School, but I take heart from the fact that the featured article Prisoner's Dilemma in its current form was written mostly by me.
  • BigCow - Graduate Computer Science student, minor in economics. Interested in game theory subjects, but I predict I'll have more to lend in terms of style than original ideas
  • Wolverineblue - Undergarduate Econ major at the University of Michigan. I plan to write an article on forward induction.
  • hcg25 - undergraduate economist interested in macroeconomic applications of game theory.
  • Bromille - PhD in computer science with an interest in equilibrium computation. Also interested in "pure" game theory, in particular equilibrium refinements.
  • Christofurio - I am a finance journalist with Reuters, and have written freelance about a variety of related subjects, game theory among them.
  • -Grick(talk to me!) 19:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC) - undergraduate, possibly majoring in economics
  • Aroundthewayboy - studied math, philosophy, and economics at Columbia and the LSE
  • Oxymoron PPE Undergrad at Lincoln College, Oxford, interest in Microeconomic and Poliical Theory applications.
  • Dan Alger I have re-entered the academic world a few years ago to teach at my alma mater Lawrence University, a liberal arts college in WI. I'm a PhD from Northwestern in managerial economics, and my professional career has revolved around game theory and its applications.
  • trialsanderrors, PhD in Business & Public Policy from Berkeley. I (try to) write about coordination games and strategy revision.
  • MaxEnt - mostly interested in computational aspects of game theory; I'm a bit shocked that there is no material yet that addresses complexity measures, such as the exponential expansion of extensive form to normal form, or the more tractible sequential form as introduced by Daphne Koller in 1994, which has since been applied to solve a reduced complexity model of two-player limit Texas hold'em.
  • frankk74 - Interested in contributing.
  • Vince.Buffalo - I am an undergraduate political science and economics double major. I have an interest in game theory and its application to inter-state war, democratic and non-democratic politics, and international trade.
  • Michael Carrier - I'm a student in Economics and aviation and also a Researcher of Board Game development
  • K Yu - I'm a PhD student with focus in game theory... will be happy to share and learn together!
  • sinervo - Have worked on game theory involving the RPS, enjoy studying games of life in nature. I am interested in reviewing contributions of others in game theory.
  • Halcyonhazard - PhD student in computer science working on controlling behavior of multi-agent systems by using market-oriented programming and game theory.
  • ap0ught (talk)
  • Muchris 14:13, 22 March 2007 (UTC) - Economics undergrad and MBA student. Would like to help out!
  • Matthew_Yeager - Currently attending Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute of Technology) pursuing a duel major in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.
  • Mikek2234 06:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC)I am currently a high school student who will be attending college in the fall. I plan on gettin my PhD in applied mathematics. I have read many books on this subject matter.
  • Scorpion451 02:28, 25 June 2007 (UTC) I am an undergraduatein Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech with an interest in game theory, especially as applied to systems of efficiency and efficacy, as well as high level strategy.
  • EnumaElish, Cornell Economics Ph.D.
  • Lighthead þ 02:32, 13 July 2007 (UTC) I have an interest in quantum coding.
  • Nybbles 07:20, 18 July 2007 (UTC) I got interested in mechanism design in last year of university as a computer science major. Now I am a software developer, still very interested in AI and mechanism design, and trying to get back into the literature.
  • Kóczy 16:14, 29 July 2007 (CET) PhD in Economics from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, currently Assistant Prof at Maastricht University. Mostly interested in cooperative game theory.
  • Furman Smith, Assoc Prof of Math Auburn University Montgomery with an interest in, but little knowledge of, various types of game theory -- combinatorial games, computational considerations, and minimax. Perhaps only minimax is not off topic here. I'd like to write an article on comply/constrain games, such as Quarto.
  • Xeeron - Believes that any introduction here is just cheap talk ;-)
  • Pallida  Mors. Degree in Economics, now following a doctoral program. Main field of interest in Game Theory: Mechanism Design. Regards! 11:49, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Cretog8 Yet another econ grad student, concentrating largely on experimental and behavioral economics.


[edit] Tasks

GameTheory.net has a very nice collection of class notes and a dictionary. If you don't know the area offhand but want to learn this is a great way. Also, most economic publications are distributed on the web long before they ever reach publication. A Google Scholar search will produce lots of papers (although they may be hard to understand in some cases).

Please add a task to this list. If needed explain what you think needs to be done.

[edit] Articles to create

Some of these may just need to be redirected.

  1. Adaptive learning
  2. Asynchrony - disambig, no game theory. need Asynchrony (game theory)
  3. Bargaining set
  4. Bidder's choice Auction
  5. Bidding increment
  6. Button auction
  7. Cardinal payoffs
  8. Combinatorial auction
  9. Combinatorial bid
  10. Conjectural equilibrium
  11. Cournot learning/Cournot dynamics/Cournot updating (should this just redirect to best response? No yet, Topic needs writing up either way Pete.Hurd 17:02, 19 October 2005 (UTC))
  12. Equilibrium refinements (eg: Intuitive criterion, Forward induction) (Ch 8 & 11 in Fudenberg & Tirole), Limit ESS (Selten)
  13. Farsightedness
  14. First price auction
  15. Generic payoff
  16. Hicks optimal
  17. Largest consistent set
  18. Minimum bid
  19. Multicomponent Attrition Game-Different from War of Attrition, this game amounts to a series of rounds with rock-paper-scissors style matrix, with the loser being penalized by a loss of options/resources in further rounds.
  20. Network stability
  21. Nucleolus
  22. Ordinal payoffs
  23. Pareto coordination game → include in Coordination game | Done, redirect set. ~ trialsanderrors 19:48, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
  24. Pareto dominated (redirect to pareto optimal, and add a sentence there?)
  25. Pooling equilibrium (discussed on pg 238 of Osborne & Rubenstein, see also Gibbons 1992)
  26. Potential game → Created ~ trialsanderrors 08:54, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  27. Power measure
  28. Principal agent/Principal agent model
  29. Proxy bidder
  30. Public good game → should this redirect to Public goods game?
  31. Pure coordination game → include in Coordination game
  32. Risk dominance/Risk dominant equilibrium → include in Stag hunt (see pp 20-21 Fudenberg & Tirole) Created ~ trialsanderrors 08:54, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  33. Schedule bid
  34. Sequential equilibrium (defined on pg 225 of Osborne & Rubenstein, sect 8.3 in Fudenberg & Tirole)). I've created this page, Bromille 09:56, 31 May 2006 (UTC).
  35. Separating equilibrium (discussed on pg 238 of Osborne & Rubenstein, see also Gibbons 1992)
  36. Simultaneous game/Static game
  37. Static game (see Gibbons 1992 pp 1-2 & 143-144, )
  38. Stationary Bayesian learning/Stationary Bayesian learning dynamics
  39. Strategic move
  40. Threat point
  41. Variable sum game - I think this is a `rest' class that does not deserve a page Koczy 16:12, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
  42. Volunteer's dilemma (redirect to chicken, and add a sentence there?)

[edit] Stubs to expand

(a good place to get started if you want to help but don't have a definite idea of how)

  1. Ambiguity aversion --1diot 21:12, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
  2. Auction theory
  3. Bishop-Cannings theorem (ultra-stubby Pete.Hurd 06:45, 15 November 2005 (UTC))
  4. Discriminatory price auction
  5. Evolutionarily stable state: now a stub, but maybe it's done Pete.Hurd 17:02, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
  6. Multiunit auction
  7. Nash Bargaining Solution: links provide excellent material Pete.Hurd 16:43, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  8. Precommitment - needs a lot of help. Remember 13:12, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
  9. Quantal response equilibrium - stub, and not quite correct Cretog8 (talk) 03:48, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
  10. Repeated game --best, kevin └ KZOLLMAN/ TALK┐ 17:06, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
  11. Revelation principle
  12. Sealed bid auction
  13. Self-confirming equilibrium
  14. Trembling hand perfect equilibrium/Trembling hand perfection (needs expansion) --best, kevin └ KZOLLMAN/ TALK┐ 17:06, 16 November 2005 (UTC). I've expanded it but forgot to sign in - it's an anonymous change of today. Bromille 09:20, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
  15. Uncorrelated asymmetry: longish stub, maybe it's done Pete.Hurd 17:02, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
  16. Uniform price auction
  17. War of attrition (game): Needs explicit formulation, proof of ESS Pete.Hurd 16:29, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Articles to modify

[edit] Standardization issues

  • We currently use many different articles when referring to "rational actors" or "behaving rationally". We have a stub perfect rationality, but this might be better served as a redirect for homo economicus. Discuss on the talk page.

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Please help us clean out Category:Unassessed game theory articles and Category:Unrated game theory articles. For assessments see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment for a description of what they mean. For the importance ratings, please use the following scale:

  • Top: articles which the general public might be interested in (i.e. game theory, nash equilibrium, and prisoner's dilemma)
  • High: articles which might occur in an undergraduate class (e.g. ultimatum game, best response, subgame perfect equilibrium, etc.)
  • Mid: articles which would occur in any graduate course (e.g. fictitious play, rationalizability, common knowledge)
  • Low: everything else

The ratings are done using parameters to the {{GameTheoryProject}} (which appears on the talk page of relevant articles). Please see its page for instructions.

Are there perhaps statistics available on how often a page is viewed in Wikipedia? That should help us to set priorities.Koczy 17:28, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm, I remember Kevin digging up some page listing most visited pages on WP once, and having some GT page high up on the list. But I also remember the list being really stale, and not looking like it was updated. Beyond that I don't know, but it sure does seem like a good idea for prioritizing effort. Pete.Hurd 17:55, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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