Title: Games as Graphs
Time, Date, Location: 11:00, Friday, 17 February, 2023, Brian Anderson Building Seminar Room
Abstract: In this talk we re-examine the utility foundations of game theory. We present a simple and intuitive model of a game defined precisely by each player’s preference orders of their strategies, given the strategies of the other players. These orders define a graph called the ‘response graph’ of the game. We discuss why the response graph is a natural model. Most importantly, we find that the graph-based approach leads to new insights and predictions that improve upon our understanding of game theory, particularly evolution in game