Announcement

• Scope of mid-term: Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3: 3.1-3.3

General Information

Lecturer

• Lau Chi Hin
  • Office: LSB 208
  • Tel: 39437987
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Teaching Assistant

• Chan Ho Yuen
  • Office: LSB 222C
  • Tel: 3943 8570
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• Liu Cairong
  • Office: LSB 222A
  • Tel: 3943 3575
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Time and Venue

• Lecture: Monday 14:30-16:15, LSB LT2; Tuesday 13:30-14:15, LHC 103
• Tutorial: Tuesday 12:30-13:15, LHC 103

Course Description

Principles and techniques of game theory, matrix games, minimax theorem and calculation of optimal strategies, cooperative and non-cooperative solutions of bimatrix games, coalitional games and applications. Students taking this course are expected to have knowledge in linear algebra.

Textbooks

• Peter Morris: Introduction to Game Theory, Springer 1994

References

• Games of Strategy by Avinash K. Dixit and Susan Skeath, 2004.
• An introduction to game theory by Martin J. Osborne, 2003. http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/igt/index.html
• Games for business and economics: Roy Gardner, Hoboken, NJ, c2003.
• Forgo, Szep and Szidarovszky: Introduction to the Theory of Games, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Lecture Notes

• Full version
• Introduction
• Combinatorial games

Tutorial Notes

• Ferguson
• K S Lau
• Eric Chung

Assignments

• Assignment 1: Exercise 1: 1,2,4,5,6,8 (due: 28 Jan (Wed))
• Assignment 2: Exercise 2: 1,2(a)(c)(e)(g),3,7,9,10 (due: 11 Feb (Wed))
• Assignment 3: 1(b), 2(a)(c)(f) (Due: 25 Feb 2015 (Wednesday))
• Assignment 4: 1(a)(b), 2, 3(a)(c), 5 (Due: 25 March 2015 (Wednesday))
• Assignment 5: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Due: 15 April 2015 (Wednesday))

Solutions

• Suggested solution to assignment 1
• Suggested solution to assignment 2
• Suggested solution to assignment 3_revised
• Suggested solution to mid-term examination
• Suggested solution to assignment 4
• Suggested solution to assignment 5

Assessment Scheme