An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a strategy (or set of strategies) that is impermeable when adopted by a population in adaptation to a specific...

A weak evolutionarily stable strategy (WESS) is a more broad form of evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS). Like ESS, a WESS is able to defend against...

stability. While related to the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), evolutionarily stable states are not identical and the two terms cannot...

players will realize the difficulty of making a choice. So a more stable strategy is needed. Some choices are dominated by others and can be eliminated:...

extended form games. Nash equilibrium Haven (graph theory) Evolutionarily stable strategy Ben Polak Game Theory: Lecture 1 Transcript ECON 159, 5 September...

acting together Equilibrium selection – Concept in game theory Evolutionarily stable strategy – Solution concept in game theory Glossary of game theory Hotelling's...

of democratic (voter) mobilization. Thirdly, once autocratization begins, weak accountability mechanisms and opposition actors enable democratic breakdown...

chooses between the two pure strategies. Either the pure, or mixed, Nash equilibria will be evolutionarily stable strategies depending upon whether uncorrelated...

been shown that unfair ZD strategies are not evolutionarily stable. The key intuition is that an evolutionarily stable strategy must not only be able to...

coalition C {\displaystyle C} , such that each player in C {\displaystyle C} weakly-prefers y {\displaystyle y} ( x i ≤ y i {\displaystyle x_{i}\leq y_{i}}...

mathematics, economics, and computer science, the stable matching problem is the problem of finding a stable matching between two equally sized sets of elements...

else to gain a win if X makes a weak play. More detailed, to guarantee a draw, O should adopt the following strategies: If X plays a corner opening move...

strategies. Strategy B is strictly dominant if strategy B strictly dominates every other possible strategy. Strategy B is weakly dominant if strategy...

the other player). The game has a mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium; when both players play equilibrium strategies, the first player should expect to lose...

a weakly solved game may lose its attraction if the winning strategy is simple enough to remember (e.g., Maharajah and the Sepoys). An ultra-weak solution...

weak against another. Such mechanics can make a game somewhat self-balancing, prevent gameplay from being overwhelmed by a single dominant strategy and...

Evolutionarily Stable Strategies with Two Types of Players J. Appl. Prob. 16, 76–83. Taylor, P. D., and Jonker, L. B. (1978). Evolutionarily Stable Strategies...

largely as a result of the work of John Maynard Smith and his evolutionarily stable strategy. In addition, the concepts of correlated equilibrium, trembling...

envy-free division Social Choice and Individual Values for the "(weak) Pareto principle" Stable marriage problem TOTREP Welfare economics "Martin J. Osborne"...

land access and the eventual sedentarization of pastoral nomads despite its weak empirical basis. Examining relations between historically nomadic Bedouin...

same normal form. A subset of a stable set survives iterative elimination of weakly dominated strategies and strategies that are inferior replies at every...

both strictly and weakly dominated strategies. If, at the end of the process, there is a single strategy for each player, this strategy set is also a Nash...

equation Risk dominance Stochastically stable equilibrium Weak evolutionarily stable strategy Games Chicken Stag hunt Applications Cultural group selection...

participants. The utility functions (including risk aversion), payoffs, strategies and "types" of players are thus common knowledge. Complete information...

strategyproof (SP) mechanism is a game form in which each player has a weakly-dominant strategy, so that no player can gain by "spying" over the other players...

players' strategy spaces and payoff functions. A strategy space for a player is the set of all strategies available to that player, whereas a strategy is a...

In combinatorial game theory, the strategy-stealing argument is a general argument that shows, for many two-player games, that the second player cannot...

model was originally formulated by John Maynard Smith; a mixed evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) was determined by Bishop & Cannings. An example is a second...

equation Risk dominance Stochastically stable equilibrium Weak evolutionarily stable strategy Games Chicken Stag hunt Applications Cultural group selection...

stronger degree is dominant-strategy incentive-compatibility (DSIC).: 415  This means that truth-telling is a weakly-dominant strategy, i.e. you fare best or...