Interdisciplinary research is becoming more and popular. Many funding bodies encourage interdisciplinarity, as a criterion that promises scientific progress. Traditionally this has been linked to the idea of integrating or unifying disciplines. Using evolutionary game theory case study, Till Grüne-Yanoff (2016) argued there no such necessary link between interdisciplinary success integration. C...

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...

data envelopment analysis (dea) and balanced scorecard (bsc) are two well-known approaches for measuring performance of decision making units (dmus). bsc is especially applied with quality measures, whereas, when the quantity measures are used to evaluate, dea is more appropriate. in the real-world, dmus usually have complex structures such as network structures. one of the well-known network s...

abstract atrak basin is an agricultural area in north khorasan province that the most farmers are using from groundwater resources for irrigation their crops. decreasing rainfall in recent years in this area, competition between urban, agriculture and industrial consumers has increased for water acquisition. in present study, game theory was applied for groundwater resources management of atrak...

Due to its role in the identification of inefficient branches and deciding the consistency of their activities, evaluating the performance of a bankchr('39')s branches is one of the most important decisions in the field of development and regulation of branch network. In this paper, the satisfactory functions based on game theory strategies have been utilized in order to evaluate the individual...