sugar, including processed goods in the world in the raw material for the production of agriculture and it is a strategic commodity. the intent of this research is to approach the game theory to analyze the relationship between import and export of sugar, iranian and brazil. the impact of changes in world prices and import tariffs, the welfare of the brazilian study. the data used in this study...

In this lecture we present a few key results in production planning with known time-varying requirements under convex or concave production costs. Convex production costs arise when we need to utilize increasingly more expensive resources to achieve higher levels of production. As an example, consider a factory with a regular workforce. If demand is beyond the capacity of the regular workforce,...

in this paper, we use game theory to describe the emergence of self-organization and consequent pattern formation through communicative cooperation in bacillus subtilis colonies. the emergence of cooperative regime is modelled as an n-player assurance game, with the bacterial colonies as individual players. the game is played iteratively through cooperative communication, and mediated by exchan...

Professor Michael Maschler passed away on July 20, 2008. He belonged to the small and select group of first generation game theorists who created the discipline, by developing new frameworks of analysis, proposing original solutions and discovering new fields of application. For over fifty years he played a central role in our community, and his name is decisively associated with the developmen...