Biologist gets minimum sentence in 'espionage' case
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Games with espionage
We consider normal form games in which two players decide on their strategies before the start of play and Player 1 can purchase noisy information about his opponent’s decisions concerning future response policies (i.e., spy on his opponent). We give a full characterization of the set of distributions over the players’ payo¤s that can be induced by such equilibria, as well as describe their wel...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/423575b