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From: tour@iiasa.ac.at (Game Theory Tournament (YOUNG/FOSTER))
Subject: Tournament of Learning to Play Games
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Last year the Nobel Prize in economics was awarded for the concept of
``equilibrium'' in a game. An unresolved issue is how people actually
learn to play games and whether some learning rules do better than
others on average. The goal of this tournament is to advance our
thinking on this issue.

Contestants should submit a learning rule and (optionally) a game on
which every contestant's rule may be tested.  The collection of
submitted rules will be treated as a population of organisms which
evolve through natural selection over time.  Pairs of rules are
selected to play each game.  The relative frequency of each rule grows
in proportion to its past success and the winning rules for a
particular game are those that have the highest frequency in the
population after many generations.

The deadline for submissions is November 1st, 1995.  For the rules of
the tournament send an email to

		      tournamentinfo@iiasa.ac.at

or point your World Wide Web brouser at

		 http://www.iiasa.ac.at/welcome.html

To have questions answered send email to

			tournament@iiasa.ac.at


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The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA),
based in Laxenburg Austria, is an interdisciplinary, non-governmental
research organization sponsored by the National Member Organizations
of 17 nations.  IIASA's current research program focuses on three
central themes: Global Environmental Change; Global Economic and
Technological Transitions; Systems Methods for the Analysis of Global
Issues.  The institute also conducts basic research in a variety of
subjects including dynamical systems theory, optimization, game theory
and decision analysis.  


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