Game Theory - Lectures

Slides

No.	Date	Topic	Slides
0.	Mon, Apr. 24, 2017	Organizational Matters	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
1.	Mon, Apr. 24, 2017	Introduction	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
2.	Mon, Apr. 24, 2017 Wed, May 03, 2017 . . .	Strategic Games	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
3.	Mon, May 8, 2017 Mon, May 15, 2017	Mixed Strategies	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
4.	Wed, May 17, 2017	Algorithms	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
5.	Mon, May 22, 2017	Complexity	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
6.	Tue, May 24, 2017 Mon, May 29, 2017 Wed, May 31, 2017	Extensive Games	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
7.	Wed, May 31, 2017	Repeated Games	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
8.	Mon, June 12, 2017 Wed, June 14, 2017	Social Choice Theory	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
9.	Mon, June 19, 2017 Wed, June 21, 2017 Mon, June 26, 2017	Mechanism Design	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
10.	Wed, June 28, 2017	Mechanisms without Money	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)
11.	Wed, June 28, 2017 Mon, July 3, 2017	Combinatorial Auctions	(Screen) (Print) (Print; 4-on-1)

Literature

K. Binmore, Fun and Games, D. C. Heath and Co, Lexington, MA, 1992.
Easy to read and fun.
D. Fudenberg und J. Tirole, Game Theory, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
Very conclusive book about game thoery.
M. J. Holler und G. Illing, Einführung in die Spieltheorie, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002 (5. Auflage).
German text book mainly aimed at students from economics.
D. Korzhyk, Z. Yin, C. Kiekintveld, V. Conitzer und M. Tambe, Stackelberg vs. Nash in Security Games: An Extended Investigation of Interchangeability, Equivalence, and Uniqueness, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Band 41 (2011), S. 297-327, doi:10.1613/jair.3269.
Research paper about security games.
N. Nisan, T. Roughgarden, E. Tardos, V. Vazirani (Hrsg.), Algorithmic Game Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Everything you want to know about game theory from an algorithmic point of view. We use the chapters 2,9, 10, 11, and 17--19.
M. J. Osborne, An Introduction to Game Theory, Oxford University Press, 2003
A little bit less formal than A Course in Game Theory.
M. J. Osborne und A. Rubinstein, A Course in Game Theory, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994.
This is the main source we use for the course.
J. S. Rosenschein und G. Zlotkin, Rules of Encounter, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994.
In this book, game theoretic principles are applied to typical AI multi-agent scenarios.
Y. Shoham und K. Leyton-Brown, Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
In this book about multi-agent-systems some game theworetic topics are covered.
Jürgen Steimle, Algorithmic Mechanism Design: Eine Einführung, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
German book on algorithmic mechanism design.