Evolutionary stable strategies and game dynamics

1978/07/01 by Peter Taylor, Peter D. Taylor, Leo B. Jonker +1 · 3,509 citations
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Applied mathematics #Artificial intelligence #Class (philosophy) #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #Computer science #Differential game #Dynamics (music) #Evolutionarily stable strategy #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Game Theory and Applications #Game theory #Mathematical economics #Mathematical optimization #Mathematics #Normal-form game #Physics #Repeated game #Sequential game #Stability (learning theory) #State (computer science)

paper · doi:10.1016/0025-5564(78)90077-9

published in Mathematical Biosciences 40(1-2), 145-156 (Elsevier BV)

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