The Pandemic Is a Prisoner’s Dilemma Game
Resources: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch06.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/health/virus-vaccine-game-theory The article, “The Pandemic Is a Prisoner’s Dilemma Game,” by ecologist Madhur Anand and mathematical biologist Chris Bauch, introduces an overview of how human behavior and environmental systems can interact during the pandemic. According to Dr. Bauch, “the pandemic is a prisoner’s dilemma game played out repeatedly.” The perceived pros and cons […]
The Global Language Network: How Influential Are Different Languages?
In a world with over 6,000 distinct languages (a statistic published by Ethnologue), it is important to be able to assess just how influential these languages are. Linguists have long utilized different measures to assess a language’s global influence, including but not limited to factors like income and wealth of groups that use that language. […]
Auction and Game Theory Involved in Private Equity Buyouts
Something large as buying a company that involves millions of dollars transaction also involves strategies with game theory and auctions. In this news article, the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom is in a rigorous auction buyout war with Fortress Investment Group and Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC. Private equity firms often […]
The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Bipartisan Bills
Democrats in Congress are currently in negotiations over two different infrastructure bills. The first one would put $3.5 trillion into social infrastructure and is backed by the more progressive Democrats in Congress. The second one is a $1 trillion bill that would mainly fund the construction of roads and bridges; this bill is more bipartisan […]
Winning at Pokémon Go Battle League
Pokémon Go is a mobile game released in 2016 that encourages players to go outside and “Catch ‘Em [Pokémon] All!”. Upon release the game did not have many mechanics outside of being a game dealing with collecting Pokémon. That, of course, changed when Pokémon Go introduced Go Battle League, a sub-game that allows players to […]
Traffic: Snail Mail is Getting Even Slower
As part of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year to plan to save the current financial status of the United States Postal Service (USPS), our national mail is about to get slower today. DeJoy has sought to cut costs and raise new revenue over the course of a decade to recover from the financial loss suffered […]
The US Highway and it’s Network for Travel
Humans have created different methods of transport – planes, trains, and cars, for example, to use them efficiently to find the fastest route of travel(the highest payoff). In the specific perspective of driving, what planning goes into the creation of highways to maximize the payoff of the players in the game? Is it possible to […]
How Game Theory is Used During COVID-19
In this New York Times article, Roberts discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic is an example of the “prisoner’s dilemma” game. The main issue is: in order to save lives, who should get the vaccine first? The pandemic in general is a game of prisoner’s dilemma as each individual has a choice, but the payoff for […]
Weighted Graphs and Reciprocity
Reference: (a) “Reciprocity in Social Networks.”, Arumugam, Haughton, Vasanthi, Zhang, CS-BIGS 5(2):126-131, (2014) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj7ktyUxKrzAhXRQjABHekPDkIQFnoECAgQAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcsbigs.fr%2Farticle%2Fview%2F222%2F206&usg=AOvVaw2t8VSl5TISJwqIKz-ZyZ9e In lectures, we mentioned that basic graphs are constructed by nodes and edges, but we can add more features to the graphs(such as weights, signs, directions, etc.) to include more information about the network. We also learned in lecture about […]
Better Ways to Grasp Animal Social-Dynamism
The social networks of animals, an active field of study going on 50 years, had been advanced by the development and utility of Animal Social Network Analysis (ASNA). In the contemporary discipline, there has been intense effort to reevaluate methods of observing, carrying, and integrating data of animal behavior into the predictive networks we attempt […]
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