Computational pool: A new challenge for game theory pragmatics

AI Magazine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 33-41

  Archibald, Christopher ^a   Altman, Alon ^b   Greenspan, Michael ^c   Shoham, Yoav ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; GAME THEORY; LAKES; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

CLIENT SOFTWARE AGENTS; CLIENT-SERVER MODELS; COMPUTER AGENTS; CONTINUOUS ACTIONS; TURN-TAKING;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 79959769612     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v31i4.2312     Document Type: Article

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