SICCSE Special Session (2003-02-20, Reno, NV)
Everything you always wanted to know about game theory*
*...but were afraid to ask

Slides & Handouts

Dan Garcia ddgarcia@cs.berkeley.edu	David Ginat ginat@post.tau.ac.il	Peter Henderson phenders@butler.edu
Overview, Combinatorial & Computational GT	Combinatorial GT Examples	2-Person games, Economic GT
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Resources (...the best are highlighted)

Combinatorial
Beasley, John D. The Mathematics of Games. Oxford University Press, 1989.
Berlekemp, E., Conway, J., and Guy, R. Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 1 & 2. Academic Press Inc., 1982.
Conway, John "On Numbers and Games" Academic Press, London/NY, 1976
Nowakowski, R. Games of No Chance. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Nowakowski, R. More Games of No Chance. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Cut-the-knot -- Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
Prof. Elwyn Berlekamp -- Premier combinatorial GT researcher in the United States. He maintains a What's HOT in GT site.
Prof. David Wolfe -- Combinatorial GT researcher, protegé of Prof. Berlekamp
Computational
Bell, R. C. Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations. Oxford University Press, 1979.
Bell, R. C. The Boardgame Book. Exeter Books, 1983.
Bell, R and Cornelius, M. Board Games Round the World: A Resource Book for Mathematical Investigations. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Brandreth, Gyles. The World's Best Indoor Games. Pantheon Books, 1981.
GAMESMAN -- Dan's Computational GT Software (written in C and Tcl/Tk)
GamesCrafters -- Dan's Computational GT undergraduate research group
Shall We Play a Game? -- Dan's Nifty Assignment presented at SIGCSE 2002
Economic
Binmore, K. Fun and Games: A Text on Game Theory. D. C. Heath and Company, 1992.
Singleton, Robert R. and Tyndall, William F. Games and Programs: Mathematics for Modeling. W. H. Freeman and Company, 1974.
Williams, J. D. The Compleat Strategyst. Dover Publications, Inc., 1982.

Dan Garcia <ddgarcia@cs.berkeley.edu>