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Two-Person Second-Order Games, Part 1: Formulation and Transition Anatomy

It is well known that human psychology determines his/her action and behavior. This fact has not been fully incorporated in game theory. This paper intends to incorporate human psychology in formulating games as people play them. In Part 1 of the paper, we formulate a two-person game by the habit...

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Main Authors: Yu, Po Lung, Larbani, Moussa
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Language:English
Published: Springer/Plenum Publishers 2009
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QA Mathematics
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spelling my.iium.irep.78712011-11-24T22:16:26Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/7871/ Two-Person Second-Order Games, Part 1: Formulation and Transition Anatomy Yu, Po Lung Larbani, Moussa QA Mathematics It is well known that human psychology determines his/her action and behavior. This fact has not been fully incorporated in game theory. This paper intends to incorporate human psychology in formulating games as people play them. In Part 1 of the paper, we formulate a two-person game by the habitual domain theory and the Markov chain theory. Using the habitual domains theory, we present a new model describing the evolution of the states of mind of players over time, the two-person second-order game. We introduce the concept of the focal mind profile as well as the solution concept of the win-win mind profile. In addition, we provide also a method to predict the average number of steps needed for a game to reach a focal or win-win mind profile. Then, in Part 2 of the paper, under some reasonable assumptions, we derive the possibility theorem stating that it is always possible to reach a win-win mind profile when suitable conditions are satisfied. Springer/Plenum Publishers 2009 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/7871/1/Two-Person_Second-Order_Games%2C_Part_1_Formulation.pdf Yu, Po Lung and Larbani, Moussa (2009) Two-Person Second-Order Games, Part 1: Formulation and Transition Anatomy. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 141 (3). pp. 619-639. ISSN 0022-3239 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10957-008-9487-y doi:10.1007/s10957-008-9487-y
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Yu, Po Lung
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Two-Person Second-Order Games, Part 1: Formulation and Transition Anatomy
description It is well known that human psychology determines his/her action and behavior. This fact has not been fully incorporated in game theory. This paper intends to incorporate human psychology in formulating games as people play them. In Part 1 of the paper, we formulate a two-person game by the habitual domain theory and the Markov chain theory. Using the habitual domains theory, we present a new model describing the evolution of the states of mind of players over time, the two-person second-order game. We introduce the concept of the focal mind profile as well as the solution concept of the win-win mind profile. In addition, we provide also a method to predict the average number of steps needed for a game to reach a focal or win-win mind profile. Then, in Part 2 of the paper, under some reasonable assumptions, we derive the possibility theorem stating that it is always possible to reach a win-win mind profile when suitable conditions are satisfied.
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Larbani, Moussa
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title Two-Person Second-Order Games, Part 1: Formulation and Transition Anatomy
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title_fullStr Two-Person Second-Order Games, Part 1: Formulation and Transition Anatomy
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url http://irep.iium.edu.my/7871/1/Two-Person_Second-Order_Games%2C_Part_1_Formulation.pdf
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