• Backward induction is the process of determining a sequence of optimal choices by reasoning from the endpoint of a problem or situation back to its beginning...
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    realistic. In dynamic games, backward induction can be used to eliminate unrealistic Nash equilibria. Backward induction assumes that players are rational...
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  • (simpler) subgames to find a solution to the game, in a process called backward induction. In chess, it is called retrograde analysis, and it is used to generate...
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    introductory game theory courses and texts to highlight the concept of backward induction and the iterated elimination of dominated strategies, which show a...
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  • Word-sense induction Backward induction in game theory and economics Induced representation, in representation theory Mathematical induction, a method...
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  • game therefore backward induction does not provide the minmax theorem in this game. Backward induction is a process of reasoning backward in time. It is...
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    rules of arithmetic but employs the rarely used technique of forward-backward-induction. It is essentially from Augustin Louis Cauchy and can be found in...
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    Well-Ordering" (PDF). York University. Retrieved 28 May 2023. "Forward-Backward Induction | Brilliant Math & Science Wiki". brilliant.org. Retrieved 23 October...
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  • is backward induction, where one starts by analyzing the last actions the final mover should take to maximize his/her utility and works backward. While...
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    {\displaystyle X} . Muddy children puzzle can also be solved using backward induction from game theory. Muddy children puzzle can be represented as an extensive...
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    that might arise. The standard solution technique for such games is backward induction, where players reason from the end of the game toward the beginning...
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    complete game tree can be generated, a deterministic algorithm, such as backward induction or retrograde analysis can be used. Randomized algorithms and minmax...
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  • between two compelling strategies: the logically sound approach of backward induction prescribed by classical game theory, and the intuitively appealing...
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  • often been motivated by arguments for admissibility, backward induction, and forward induction. In a two-player game, an admissible decision rule for...
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    such games, a subgame perfect equilibrium can be determined through backward induction, a process of working from the end of the game back to the start to...
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  • decision tree. To solve any extensive form game, backward induction must be used. It involves working backward up the game tree to determine what a rational...
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    Tragedy of the commons Uncorrelated asymmetry Equilibrium Concepts Backward induction Bayes correlated equilibrium Bayesian efficiency Bayesian game Bayesian...
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  • stage game equilibrium in each round. This can be deduced through backward induction. The unique stage game Nash equilibrium must be played in the last...
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  • solution concept. Mertens stable equilibria satisfy both forward induction and backward induction. In a game theory context stable equilibria now usually refer...
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  • perfect information for which the equilibrium can be found through backward induction. Several papers have solved the optimal strategy for particular spin...
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    equilibria that rely on non-credible threats can be eliminated through backward induction; the remaining equilibria are called subgame perfect Nash equilibria...
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  • find viable strategies. In dynamic games with complete information, backward induction is the solution concept, which eliminates non-credible threats as...
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    every subgame, that players have no incentive to deviate from. Using backward induction, we see that in the final stage, the responder will always accept...
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  • nodes at the highest move-depth is precisely the tree-complexity). Backward induction will use both memory and time proportional to the state-space complexity...
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  • explained below. When solving dynamic optimization problems by numerical backward induction, the objective function must be computed for each combination of values...
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    and Backward Induction", Journal of Economic Methodology, 4, 1997 With J. McCarthy, G. Ponti, A. Shaked and L. Samuelson, "A Backward Induction Experiment...
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