One constant issue in development of video games is the tremendous effect that game agents have on the quality of the player's experience. In many modern games, a single player or even multiple players are given an opportunity to have bots as opponents or as team-mates. In addition, some games involve players interacting with friendly non-player characters (NPCs) who are not companions. Interac...

background: exposure to loud music from sources such as portable music players (pmp), especially among adolescents, can lead to noise-induced hearing loss. the aims of this study are as follows: 1) investigate the prevalence of headphone use in iranian university students by assessing their behavior, 2) determine the type of headphones used, and 3) ascertain the type of music player used. metho...

Player-Compatible Equilibrium (PCE) imposes cross-player restrictions on the magnitudes of players' “trembles” onto different strategies. These capture idea that trembles correspond to deliberate experiments by agents who are unsure prevailing distribution play. PCE selects intuitive equilibria in a number examples where trembling-hand perfect equilibrium (Selten, 1975) and proper (Myerson, 197...

Today, esports such as League of Legends are a popular form competition using video games. Many researchers have conducted studies in the field player psychology, training, and physical exercise; however, those that apply quantitative techniques still scarce. In this paper, Analytic Hierarchy Process is proposed for weighting position skillsets players Legends. It hypothesized by developer pair...

We examine the effect of player-transfers entered into by football clubs owned, or financed, individuals who are key players in oil market on abnormal returns futures. In oil-financed clubs, sums expended buying frequently far exceeds amount received from selling player-transfer market. find that order to finance these deficits market, owners act opportunistically withholding supply, resulting ...

The first chapter of my thesis is the first attempt in the game theory literature to study the impact of reputation in a game with an arbitrary number of nonmyopic players, not just two. I consider a reputation game with perfect monitoring and multiple long-lived opponents indexed 1, 2, · · · , n. Player 0, who attempts to build reputation, could be either the normal type (maximizing the discou...

Games shape player behaviour by presenting goals which players attempt to fulfil. This is the most common “folk” theory of the relationship between game design and player behaviour. It is also one central to most game design literature and to much work within the game studies field. In this dissertation, the simple idea that players try to win is explicated through a “Rational Player Model”, a ...

Games shape player behaviour by presenting goals which players attempt to fulfil. This is the most common “folk” theory of the relationship between game design and player behaviour. It is also one central to most game design literature and to much work within the game studies field. In this dissertation, the simple idea that players try to win is explicated through a “Rational Player Model”, a ...

introduction professional sports injuries are usually all dealt with at one single operation to return the player to the sport after appropriate rehabilitation. we questioned the assumption that rotator cuff tears must be repaired concurrently with instability syndromes, and aimed to allow a professional rugby league player to achieve career goals by not correcting all pathology at one surgery....

analyzing free riding problem through static games considering homogenous players has been resulted in choosing the free riding strategy as a dominant strategy for the players. in this paper free riding is analyzed through cooperation game imposing non-homogenous players using network models. players would be differentiated by their links with their neighbors in the game. evolutionary game theo...