A definition of ESS (evolutionarily stable strategy) is suggested for games in which there are two types of player, each with its own set of strategies, and the fitness of any strategy depends upon the strategy mix, of both types, in the population as a whole. We check that the standard ESS results hold for this definition and discuss a mate-desertion model which has appeared in the literature ...

A battery of 26 anthropomotor and 15 situational handball tests were used in a sample of 155 girls aged 13 years, attending Split handball school for 4 years, for taxonomization and determination of relations among the areas analyzed. Figures were analyzed by taxonomic analysis using the model of polar types and canonic correlation analysis. Five types that basically corresponded to the positio...

In a dynamic contest where it is costly to compete, a player who is behind must decide whether to surrender or to keep fighting in the face of bleak odds. We experimentally examine the game theoretic prediction of last stand behavior in a multi-battle contest with a winning prize and losing penalty, as well as the contrasting prediction of surrendering in the corresponding contest with no penal...

As virtual economies begin to interact more with real world economies, it is important to consider the in-game activities that players engage in, which create and transfer game currency. Specifically, we examine products and services that players offer to each other within MMORPGs. We use Bartle’s taxonomy of player types to illustrate the different behavioral approaches players have in consumi...

In games with a large number of players where players may have overlapping objectives, the analysis of stable outcomes typically depends on player types. A special case is when a large part of the player population consists of imitation types: that of players who imitate choice of other (optimizing) types. Game theorists typically study the evolution of such games in dynamical systems with imit...

Switched-Capacitor multilevel inverters (SCMLI) are being explored for renewable power applications like solar-PV integration because of their benefits low component count and low-cost factors. This work presents explores a new inverter with hexad voltage-boosting capability. It employs single source produces 13-level waveform by utilizing only fourteen switches, two diodes, four capacitors. Th...

Cricket is one of the most popular team sports in the world. Players have multiple roles in a game of cricket, predominantly as batsmen and bowlers. Over the generations, statistics such as batting and bowling averages, and strike and economy rates have been used to judge the performance of individual players. These measures, however, do not take into consideration the context of the game in wh...

We study rent-seeking contests, where the set of players contains two groups of players — one with independent preferences and the other with interdependent preferences. It turns out that the latter experience a strategic advantage in general two-player contests and in n-player-contests with nonincreasing marginal efficiency. As to the case of general n-player contests with increasing marginal ...

We study a canonical model of reputation between a long-run player and a sequence of short-run opponents, in which the long-run player is privately informed about an uncertain state, which determines the monitoring structure in the reputation game. The long-run player plays a stage-game repeatedly against a sequence of short-run opponents. We present necessary and sufficient conditions (on the ...