Evolutionary Games with Affine Fitness Functions: Applications to Cancer

Dynamic Games and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 370-385

  Gerstung, Moritz ^a   Nakhoul, Hani ^a   Beerenwinkel, Niko ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Evolutionary game theory; Moran process; Prisoner's Dilemma; Replicator equation; Stroma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869208379     PISSN: 21530785     EISSN: 21530793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13235-011-0029-0     Document Type: Article

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