The multi-leader-follower game serves as an important model in game theory with many applications in economics, operations research and other fields. In this survey paper, we first recall some background materials in game theory and optimization. In particular, we present several extensions of Nash equilibrium problems including the multi-leader-follower game. We then give some applications as ...

In this paper, we study intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation in players playing an electrical engineering gaming environment. We used UNTANGLED, a highly interactive game to conduct this study. This game is developed to solve complex mapping problem from electrical engineering using human intuitions. Our goal is to find whether there are differences in the ways anonymous players solved electrical...

Computer games have become part of children’s culture. Children and adolescents are quite happy to spend many hours playing a game just for the fun of it. On the other hand educational syllabus may look quite dry to children and adolescents. In this paper, we describe VR-ENGAGE, a virtual reality game that has been constructed for teaching geography to students in a motivating way. Thus the cap...

The requirements of computer games by means of CPU and graphics performance are continuously growing. At the same time many low cost and modest performance CE devices are gaining popularity. People are already used to mobile life style inside home and on the go and want to enjoy entertainment everywhere. This paper describes a novel gaming system, called Games@Large, which enables heavy PC game...

In this paper, we propose a novel modeling method, Stochastic Game Nets (SGN) and use it to model and analyze the attack actions in electronic commerce (ecommerce). Firstly, the definition and modeling algorithm of Stochastic Game Nets are given. And then we apply the Stochastic Game Nets method to describe the attack and defense course in e-commerce. Finally we analyze the attack time and atta...

PURPOSE To compare the video and computer game play patterns of young adolescent boys and girls, including factors correlated with playing violent games. METHODS Data collected in November/December, 2004 from children in grades 7 and 8 at two demographically diverse schools in Pennsylvania and South Carolina, using a detailed written self-reported survey. RESULTS Of 1254 participants (53% f...

Various network technologies have been developed towards ubiquitous computing. Actually, the specific network technology has its own protocol layer, characteristics and objectives. Due to these limitations, though cellular network and WPAN are being used in handset together, the services using both networks are not so popular until now. This paper presents a platform design integrating cellular...

Issue 12.1 of SIGecom Exchanges includes a letter from the program chairs of EC'13, a survey, and six research letters. The purpose of the first letter is to update the community about some of the decisions and discussions surrounding EC'13. The previous Exchanges issue—11.2—included a letter from the SIG chair David Parkes, and going forward the plan is to alternate between these two types of ...

Negotiation can be regarded as playing a game with certain rules. If the rules change, the game has to be played differently. Compared to traditional markets, electronic markets can have fundamentally different characteristics such as cost structure or the level of transparency. These differences have already stimulated the tremendous success of one breed of electronic market negotiations: auct...