Conflict without Misperceptions or Incomplete Information

Bargaining and Conflict with Incomplete Information

This paper studies bargaining and conflict under incomplete information, provides an overview and a critical account of the literature on the topic and contributes with original research. We first revise models of mechanism design and sequential bargaining that take confrontation as final. Conflict and inefficiencies are to be expected in these models whenever parties have optimistic prospects ...

Misperceptions and Hypergame Models of Conflict

Classification with Diffuse or Incomplete Information

In many different fields like finance, business, pattern recognition, communication and many other applications, analysts are often faced with the task of classifying items based on historical or measured data. A major difficulty faced by such analysts is that data to be classified can often be quite complex, with numerous interrelated variables, or even incomplete. The time and effort required...

Incomplete Information

DEFINITION Incomplete information arises in relational databases, when a fact (tuple) has to be inserted in a relation, and values for some required columns are missing. For instance, in an employee database, the phone number of one employee might be missing, as might also the address of another employee. There are numerous reasons for such missing information, e.g. the insertion was done throu...

Incomplete Information ∗

In interactive contexts such as games and economies, it is important to take account not only of what the players believe about substantive matters (such as payoffs), but also of what they believe about the beliefs of other players. Two different but equivalent ways of dealing with this matter, the semantic and the syntactic, are set forth. Canonical and universal semantic systems are then defi...