Coordination games and local interactions: A survey of the game theoretic literature

Games

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 551-585

  Weidenholzer, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coordination games; Learning; Local interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860633019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/g1040551     Document Type: Article

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