Mixed-strategy supports generic design and enhances software changeability. The main motivation for building a mixed-strategy solution is to exploit opportunities offered by similarity patterns. By doing this, we gain extra levels of changeability, which matters in maintenance, and genericity, which matters in reuse. From the mixed-strategy perspective, there is no difference between maintainab...

This work presents a lookahead-based exploration strategy for a model-based learning agent that enables exploration of the opponent’s behavior during interaction in a multi-agent system. Instead of holding one model, the model-based agent maintains a mixed opponent model, a distribution over a set of models that reflects its uncertainty about the opponent’s strategy. Every action is evaluated a...

We propose a statistical model to assess whether individuals strategically use mixed strategies in repeated games. We formulate a hidden Markov model in which the latent state space contains both pure and mixed strategies, and allows switching between these states. We apply the model to data from an experiment in which human subjects repeatedly play a normal form game against a computer that al...

This study was an attempt to explore the reading strategy use of Iranian M.A. students across three different fields of study. Eighty-two M.A. students of power engineering, physics, and communicationwere selected by a Nelson test and the reading comprehension section of a TOEFL. The reading comprehension section of the TOEFL served also as a specific task which helped participants report their...

Often we do not need the notion of an outcome as distinct from a strategy profile. In such cases the game has the simpler formN,A, u, and in the remainder of the article we will adopt this form. We have so far defined the actions available to each player in a game, but not yet his set of strategies, or his available choices. Certainly one kind of strategy is to select a single action and play i...

This paper looks at an N person coordination game which is called by Brian Arthur as the bar problem We look at the mixed strategy equilibria and show that there is a unique purely mixed strategy equilibrium in which all players play non degenerated mixed strategies We also examine some simple dynamics that might evolve the system to that equilibrium by conducting some preliminary numerical exp...

The focus of this paper is on developing verifiable sufficient conditions for the existence of a mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for both diagonally transfer continuous and better-reply secure games. First, we show that employing the concept of diagonal transfer continuity in place of better-reply security might be advantageous when the existence of a mixed strategy Nash equilibrium is concerne...

The complexity of algorithms that compute strategies or operate on them typically depends on the representation length of the strategies involved One measure for the size of a mixed strategy is the number of strategies in its support the set of pure strategies to which it gives positive probability This paper investigates the existence of small mixed strategies in exten sive form games and how ...

Based on a population genetic model of mixed strategies determined by alleles of small effect, we derive conditions for the evolution of social learning in an infinite-state environment that changes periodically over time. Each mixed strategy is defined by the probabilities that an organism will commit itself to individual learning, social learning, or innate behavior. We identify the convergen...

Using a sample selection induced bivariate probit model fitted to data collected from small scale, resource poor farmers in Western Oromia (Jimma, Ilu-Ababaor, Estern and Western Welega zones), I define and simulate different strategy (Pure and Mixed) scenarios. The scenarios provide the extent to which the adoption of maize technology package (HYV-seeds, fertilizers and planting methods) among...