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Resources on game theory

Here is a list of few papers on game theory, which I have read/glanced at. I have added some recently published papers on game theory (in STOC, SODA, PODC, MobiHoc) in this list. Most of the recent papers are related to application of game theory in distributes systems/network optimisation, or algorithmic game theory. This list is no way an exhaustive one, and if there are any additions that I can make please mail me at  

Recent papers on application of game theory in systems

  • B. G. Chun et al. Selfish Caching in Distributed Systems : A Game-Theoretic Analysis. PODC, 2004.
  • M. X. Goemans et al. Market Sharing Games Applied to Content Distribution in Ad-Hoc Networks. MobiHoc, 2004.
  • S. Suri, C. D. Toth and Y. Zhou. Selfish Load Balancing and Atomic Congestion Games. SPAA, 2004.
  • M. M. Halldorsson et al. On Spectrun Sharing Games. PODC, 2004.
  • A. Akella et al. Selfish Behaviour and Stability of the Internet : A Game-Theoretic Analysis of TCP. SIGCOMM, 2002.
  • T. Roughgarden. Selfish Routing. PhD Thesis, Cornell University, 2002.
  • A. Czumaj, P. Krysta and B. Vocking. Selfish Traffic Allocation for Server Farms. STOC, 2002.

Papers on algorithmic game theory

Economic game theory

  • Nash, J.F. The Bargaining Problem Econometrica, 1950. [PDF]
  • Nash, J.F. Non Cooperative Games Annals of Mathematics, 1951.
  • Nash, J.F. Equilibrium points in n-person games Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1950.

Evolutionary game theory

  • Dawkins, R. The selfish gene, Oxford University Press, 1989.
  • Axelrod, R. The Evolution of Cooperation, NewYork : Basic Books, 1984.
  • Axelrod, R. and Hamilton, W.D. The Evolution of Cooperation. Science, 211, pp. 1390-6. [PDF]
  • Axelrod, R. The evolution of strategies in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, 1987. [PDF]

Texts on game theory

  • Neumann, J. von and Morgenstern, O. Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour, Princeton University Press, 1953.
  • Osborne, Martin J. and Rubinstein, A. A Course in Game Theory, MIT Press.
  • Gibbons, R. Game Theory for Applied Economics, Princeton University Press, 1992.
  • Dutta, P. Strategies and Games, 1999.
  • Binmore, K. Fun and Games: A Text on Game Theory, A.I.T.B.S Publishers.
  • Roughgarden, T. Selfish routing and the price of anarchy, The MIT press, 2005.

Game Theory courses

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