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| Author | : Milan Vojnović |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 737 |
| Release | : 2016-02-04 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1316472906 |
Contests are prevalent in many areas, including sports, rent seeking, patent races, innovation inducement, labor markets, scientific projects, crowdsourcing and other online services, and allocation of computer system resources. This book provides unified, comprehensive coverage of contest theory as developed in economics, computer science, and statistics, with a focus on online services applications, allowing professionals, researchers and students to learn about the underlying theoretical principles and to test them in practice. The book sets contest design in a game-theoretic framework that can be used to model a wide-range of problems and efficiency measures such as total and individual output and social welfare, and offers insight into how the structure of prizes relates to desired contest design objectives. Methods for rating the skills and ranking of players are presented, as are proportional allocation and similar allocation mechanisms, simultaneous contests, sharing utility of productive activities, sequential contests, and tournaments.
| Author | : Milan Vojnović |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 737 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1107033136 |
Using a game-theoretic framework, this unified, comprehensive treatment of contest design in economics and computer science focuses on online applications.
| Author | : Alfie Kohn |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780395631256 |
Argues that competition is inherently destructive and that competitive behavior is culturally induced, counter-productive, and causes anxiety, selfishness, self-doubt, and poor communication.
| Author | : Steven Aicinena |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2021-11-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1666900923 |
The Native American Contest Powwow introduces Cultural Tethering Theory to convey the importance of the contest powwow in the celebration and preservation of Native American culture. The book addresses the concepts of culture, cultural change, acculturation, assimilation, and illustrates how competitive powwows align with and differ from competitive sporting events. Authors Steven Aicinena and Sebahattin Ziyanak go on to explain how the modern intertribal contest powwow evolved and why modern Native American cultures are experiencing an erosion of traditional values, a rapid loss of traditional languages, dysfunctional changes in social organization, limited opportunity to transmit culturally valued knowledge, and reduced opportunities for youths to observe culturally appropriate behavior. The authors also examine Native American identity and explore who can legitimately claim to be a Native American under current laws and customs. Additional topics addressed include blood quantum, cultural knowledge, cultural participation, being Indian, and playing Indian. Finally, the authors describe the difference between being Native American and playing Indian in powwow and pseudo-cultural powwow environments.
| Author | : Ian C. W. Hardy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2013-05-30 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1107244390 |
Contests are an important aspect of the lives of diverse animals, from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and which contestant wins? Addressing fundamental questions on contest behaviour, this volume presents theoretical and empirical perspectives across a range of species. The historical development of contest research, the evolutionary theory of both dyadic and multiparty contests, and approaches to experimental design and data analysis are discussed in the first chapters. This is followed by reviews of research in key animal taxa, from the use of aerial displays and assessment rules in butterflies and the developmental biology of weapons in beetles, through to interstate warfare in humans. The final chapter considers future directions and applications of contest research, making this a comprehensive resource for both graduate students and researchers in the field.
| Author | : Christopher Norris |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2009-12-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1136999000 |
This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. On the one hand, deconstruction brings a vigilant awareness of the figural and narrative tropes that make up the discourse of philosophic reason. On the other it insists that argumentative rigour cannot be divorced from the kind of close reading that has come to characterize literary theory in its more advanced or speculative forms. This present-day ‘contest of faculties’ has large implications for philosophers and critics, many of whom will welcome the reissue of such a clear-headed statement of the impact of deconstruction.
| Author | : Antje Wiener |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2014-08-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3642552358 |
The Theory of Contestation advances critical norms research in international relations. It scrutinises the uses of ‘contestation’ in international relations theories with regard to its descriptive and normative potential. To that end, critical investigations into international relations are conducted based on three thinking tools from public philosophy and the social sciences: The normativity premise, the diversity premise and cultural cosmopolitanism. The resulting theory of contestation entails four main features, namely types of norms, modes of contestation, segments of norms and the cycle of contestation. The theory distinguishes between the principle of contestedness and the practice of contestation and argues that, if contestedness is accepted as a meta-organising principle of global governance, regular access to contestation for all involved stakeholders will enhance legitimate governance in the global realm.
| Author | : John E ROEMER |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0674042859 |
John Roemer presents a unified and rigorous theory of political competition between parties and he models the theory under many specifications, including whether parties are policy oriented or oriented toward winning, whether they are certain or uncertain about voter preferences, and whether the policy space is uni- or multidimensional.
| Author | : Robert Axelrod |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2009-04-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0786734884 |
A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.
| Author | : Carmen Beviá |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2024-05-31 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1009504436 |
Contest theory is an important part of game theory used to analyse different types of contests and conflicts. Traditional microeconomic models focus on situations where property rights are well defined, and agents voluntarily trade rights over goods or produce rights for new goods. However, much less focus has been given to other situations where agents do not trade property rights, but rather fight over them. Contests: Theory and Applications presents a state-of-the art discussion of the economics of contests from the perspective of both core theory and applications. It provides a new approach to standard topics in labour, education, welfare and development and introduces areas like voting, industrial organisation, mechanism design, sport, and military conflict. Using elementary mathematics, this book provides a versatile framework for navigating this growing area of study and serves as an essential resource for its wide variety of applications in economics and political science.
