Decision & Game Theory: Perspectives, Applications & Challenges

Human communication can be characterized in terms of game theory as competing motivations in a social game in which one person desires winning in terms of obtaining compliance. Furthermore, game theory is an interesting framework for dialogue modeling, both the human dialogue and the human-machine dialogue. The first chapter describes the author''''s contribution on the pragmatics of the dialogue, and proposes a general model of dialogue based on game theory. The second and third chapters review game theory as a way to analyze many different kinds of decisions and decision problems. The remaining chapters present a methodology based on Decision Analysis; decisions in everyday statistics; and an analysis of Thomas Bayes'''' famous Essay towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances . See more