Evolutionary Game Theory and Applications

该奖项资助进化博弈论及其应用中的四个主题的研究。第一个项目使用进化博弈动力学来研究住宅隔离。托马斯·谢林有一句著名的论断，他认为，温和地选择不属于少数族裔可能会导致社区高度隔绝。运用进化博弈论的新工具，构建并分析了一个新的区位选择动态模型。利用这个模型，他研究了住宅隔离是否是由各种不同的起始条件引起的稳定结果。他还确定了其他偏好(例如，选择住在好学校附近的偏好)是否增加或减少了模型中的隔离。第二个项目研究了一般人口博弈中确定性进化动态下均衡的局部稳定性。第三和第四个项目基于修改机会的顺序到达和收益噪声，建立和分析了不同的随机演化模型。PI还开发软件，向博弈论背景不多的本科生和研究生教授进化动力学。

This award funds research on four topics in evolutionary game theory and its applications. The first project uses evolutionary game dynamics to study residential segregation. Thomas Schelling has famously argued that a mild preference for not being in 'the minority' can result in highly segrated neighborhoods. Using new tools from evolutionary game theory, the investigator constructs and analyzes a new model of location choice dynamics. Using this model he investigates whether residential segregation is a stable outcome that arises from a wide variety of starting conditions. He also determines whether or not other preferences (for example, a preference for living near good schools) increase or decrease segregation in the model.The second project examines local stability of equilibrium under deterministic evolutionary dynamics in general population games. The third and fourth projects develop and analyze different models of stochastic evolution based on sequential arrival of revision opportunities and payoff noise. The PI also develops software to teach evolutionary dynamics to undergraduates and graduate students with little background in game theory.