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Theory and algorithms for cooperative systems
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ISBN: 1281955981 9786611955984 9812796592 9789812796592 9789812560209 9812560203 9781281955982 6611955984 Year: 2004 Publisher: River Edge, NJ World Scientific

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Over the past several years, cooperative control and optimization have increasingly played a larger and more important role in many aspects of military sciences, biology, communications, robotics, and decision making. At the same time, cooperative systems are notoriously difficult to model, analyze, and solve - while intuitively understood, they are not axiomatically defined in any commonly accepted manner. The works in this volume provide outstanding insights into this very complex area of research. They are the result of invited papers and selected presentations at the Fourth Annual Conf

The stag hunt and the evolution of social structure
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ISBN: 9780521533928 0521533929 0521826519 9780521826518 9781139165228 0511187440 9780511187445 0511184794 9780511184796 0511185626 9780511185625 1139165224 9780511186516 0511186517 9786610449293 6610449295 1107146909 9781107146907 1107385857 9781107385856 1280449292 9781280449291 0511313551 9780511313554 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Brian Skyrms, author of the successful Evolution of the Social Contract (which won the prestigious Lakatos Award) has written a sequel. The book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action. The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseau's A Discourse on Inequality. Rousseau contrasts the pay-off of hunting hare where the risk of non-cooperation is small but the reward is equally small, against the pay-off of hunting the stag where maximum cooperation is required but where the reward is so much greater. Thus, rational agents are pulled in one direction by considerations of risk and in another by considerations of mutual benefit. Written with Skyrms's characteristic clarity and verve, this intriguing book will be eagerly sought out by students and professionals in philosophy, political science, economics, sociology and evolutionary biology.

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