Many Agent Games in Socio-economic Systems: Corruption, Inspection, Coalition Building, Network Growth, Security (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)

Kolokoltsov, Vassili N.; Malafeyev, Oleg A.

ISBN 10: 3030123731 / ISBN 13: 9783030123734

Published by Springer, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Many Agent Games in Socio-economic Systems: Corruption, Inspection, Coalition Building, Network Growth, Security (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030123731
• ISBN 13: 9783030123734
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

There has been an increase in attention toward systems involving large numbers of small players, giving rise to the theory of mean field games, mean field type control and nonlinear Markov games. Exhibiting various real world problems involving major and minor agents, this book presents a systematic continuous-space approximation approach for mean-field interacting agents models and mean-field games models. After describing Markov-chain methodology and a modeling of mean-field interacting systems, the text presents various structural conditions on the chain to yield respective socio-economic models, focusing on migration models via binary interactions. The specific applications are wide-ranging – including inspection and corruption, cyber-security, counterterrorism, coalition building and network growth, minority games, and investment policies and optimal allocation – making this book relevant to a wide audience of applied mathematicians interested in operations research, computer science, national security, economics, and finance.

About the Author

Vassili N. Kolokoltsov is a Professor with the  Department of Statistics,  University of Warwick. During his career he held various research and teaching positions in Russia, Germany, France, Mexico and UK. He received the St. Petersburg University award for "Research Work in 2011" for the book Understanding Game Theory, written jointly with O. A. Malafeyev.

Oleg A. Malafeyev is the Head of the Department of Mathematical Modeling at St. Petersburg University (Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes). He is author of more than 200 research works, and several lecture notes, textbooks, and monographs regarding games and mathematical modeling. He received the St. Petersburg University award for "Research Work in 2011" for his book Understanding Game Theory, written jointly with V. N. Kolokoltsov.