I haven t studied game theory, but it fascinates me. My intuition is that it isn t used by most "enterprise app" developers. However, it is clearly relevant to the large online sites (e.g. recommendation systems), and a huge influence on SO.
Have you applied any principles of game theory in your daily projects? If so, which principles?
I am pretty sure that Hal Varian s work on auctions at Google must have a strong flavor of game theory, or at least micro-economics of decisions under uncertainty...
I designed & wrote a review system and recommendation system for an online recipe-sharing website a long time ago. The recommendation system didn t require any game theory, just stats and sets, but thinking about the problems I had to solve with the reviews, they were definitely game-theory-y (though I didn t think about it that way at the time).
The problem that the site I worked on faced was that people could be both authors and reviewers, so there was a certain pressure to "pump up" their own recipes stats perhaps by "pushing down" others. So there was a balance that had to grow organically from our rules to offset that selfish impulse; we did this with a per-user reputation score based on other peoples reviews of their recipes and how helpful other people thought their reviews were. In retrospect I wish I had more rigorously applied some game theory here.
A research paper which discusses the same. Manipulation-Resistant Recommender Systems through Influence Limits, Resnick and Sami, 2008. Here.
I m trying to re-create this conquerclub (Risk-like) game: http://conquerclub.barrycarter.info/ONEOFF/7460216.html In other words, I want to know who owned each territory at each point in time, ...
I m trying to implement NegaMax for a game of checkers. I m just testing it with a depth of 0 right now, meaning the current player just evaluates all his moves without regard to what the other player ...
It s for a game of checkers. See revision history for older versions of code. private static Move GetBestMove(Color color, Board board, int depth) { var bestMoves = new List<Move&...
Given an arbitary peg solitaire board configuration, what is the most effecient way to compute any series of moves that results in the "end game" position. For example, the standard starting position ...
Proximity is a strategy game of territorial domination similar to Othello, Go and Risk. Two players, uses a 10x12 hex grid. Game invented by Brian Cable in 2007. Seems to be a worthy game for ...
In The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention, the authors mention that one creative way to boost productivity in software development is to implement "productivity games" where employees ...
Support we have an n * m table, and two players play this game. They rule out cells in turn. A player can choose a cell (i, j) and rule out all the cells from (i,j) to (n, m), and who rules out the ...
I haven t studied game theory, but it fascinates me. My intuition is that it isn t used by most "enterprise app" developers. However, it is clearly relevant to the large online sites (e.g. ...
