We consider two versions of a game for two players, A and B. The game consists of manipulations of words of length n over an alphabet of size (j, for arbitrary n and (j. For (j = 2 the game is described as follows: Initially, player A puts n drinking glasses on a round table, some of which are upside down. Player B attempts to force player A to set all the glasses in the upright position. For t...

In this paper I bring together a number of insights in the field of semiotic dynamics. Inspired by recent advances in the understanding of the naming game and by previous attempts to define stages in the formation of lexical languages, we define two classes of language game problems called the single and multiple word guessing games. By being more complex than naming games, but not as complex a...

We have considered a simple word game called the wordmorph. After making our participants play a stipulated number of word-morph games, we have analysed the experimental data. We have given a detailed analysis of the learning involved in solving this word game. We propose that people are inclined to learn landmarks when they are asked to navigate from a source to a destination. We note that the...

As the contemporary heirs of popular music or cinema, computer games are gradually taking over the markets of entertainment. Much like cinema and music, computer games are taking the spotlight in another front – that which blames them for encouraging unethical behaviors. Apparently, computer games turn their users into blood thirsty zombies with a computer game learnt ability of aiming with dea...

Due to the penetration of the Internet, social mobile games have become one of the most popular entertaining virtual activities and hence, created a new market for online social networking. In this project, the authors examine the factors that drive consumers’ intentions to play social mobile games and spread positive wordof-mouth about the games. Expanding the Uses and Gratifications Theory, a...

Cognitive assessment typically involves assessing a person’s cognitive performance in unfamiliar and arguably unnatural clinical surroundings. User-centred approaches to assessment and monitoring, driven by issues such as enjoyability and familiarity, are largely absent. Everyday technologies, for example, smartphones represent an opportunity to obtain an objective assessment of a person’s cogn...

We study two-player inclusion games played over word-generating higher-order recursion schemes. While inclusion checks are known to capture verification problems, two-player games generalize this relationship to program synthesis. In such games, non-terminals of the grammar are controlled by opposing players. The goal of the existential player is to avoid producing a word that lies outside of a...

game theory models decision makers' behaviors in strategic situations. since the structures of games are different, behavior and preferences of the players are different in various types of game. this paper reviews various situations of games. here, characteristics of some common games are discussed and compared. specifically, we focus on a group of games called symmetric games including p...