COVID-19 Transmission via Graph
The pandemic has been a crucial factor that affects our lives and well beings for almost three years. Almost every country around the world has gone through the pain of the spread of COVID-19. Even the most isolated countries like North Korea have COVID-19 cases. Human-to-human transmission is the primary way that COVID-19 or other […]
Analyzing Character Networks With Graph Theory
Kirell Benzi, Ph.D. is a data scientist who used graph theory to analyze the network of characters for a certain fan wiki. 21,647 articles on the Star Wars fan wiki represent characters within this fictional universe. In order to model this massive network of characters, Benzi represented each character’s article in the wiki as a […]
Climate Change Through A Game Theory Lens
Combatting climate change has always been a game among countries. Despite heightened consensus on the need for adequate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, countries continue to evaluate the incentives of both sides of the issue: whether to cooperate with others for the betterment of the Earth and security of future generations or to consider […]
How Art Curators Use Matching Algorithms
The article, Museum-Speak: What Is a Rotation? explains how museum curators plan which pieces of art are displayed where years in advance. Most museums only display a select few pieces of art from their catalog. Fragile pieces of art that are light-sensitive may need to be displayed on specific walls or in a location that […]
Game Theory for Success in Content Marketing
https://rocfeathermedia.com/blog/game-theory-for-content-marketing/ In these past few years, we have seen a change in the marketing world due to the new social media apps such as instagram, youtube, twitter, etc. As these forms of social media continue, content marketing and entrepreneurship has changed and started using Game Theory as a way to become successful. Essentially, Game Theory […]
Perfect Matching as a Foundation for Airplane Travel
https://abc30.com/california-plane-crash-multiple-fatalities-santa-cruz-county/12139757/ Just a month ago, on August 18th, 2022, 3 people were killed after two planes collided while trying to land at a local airport in Northern California. There were two people aboard a twin-engine plane, and only one pilot aboard a single-engine plane during the crash. The city-owned airport, which accounts for 40% of […]
Game Theory and Covid-19 Vaccines!
By: Julia Beitel Researcher couple Madhur Anand and Chris Bauch were passing time during lockdown in 2020, when they decided to take a closer look at the pandemic’s human behavioral patterns with game theory. It became clear, after analyzing the pandemic’s dynamics, that the vaccine debate was a so-called “prisoner’s dilemma game.” Deciding to get […]
Nash Equilibrium and Chess Engines
Article: Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess In class, we were introduced to Game Theory, specifically analyzing strategies in a game and finding Nash equilibria. While the examples and applications touched upon in lecture and the textbook are fairly simple, with students able to easily compute and find the equilibria, there are a […]
Royal Family Funeral Dress: A Game Theoretic Approach
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/uk/prince-harry-andrew-uniforms-queen-funeral-intl-gbr/index.html As many of you may know, Queen Elizabeth II passed away a few days ago. In the wake of her passing, previous funeral plans are now being carried out. Importantly, newly-minted King Charles III now gets to decide the details regarding the funeral. Of notable interest, he has decided that everyone in the Royal […]
Game Theory in Plant Extractivism
https://doi.org/10.1186%2F1746-4269-11-6 Lately, game theory has gained traction in the field of evolutionary biology, and this paper is one example of how it can be used. While it’s true that game theory can intuitively be applied to concepts like “survival of the fittest,” which holds true for plants, this paper takes another concept into account, one […]
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