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020			_a9781139519366 (ebook)
020			_z9781107033139 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aQA269 _b.V634 2016
082	0	0	_a519.3 _223
100	1		_aVojnovic, Milan _c(Mathematician), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aContest theory : _bincentive mechanisms and ranking methods / _cMilan Vojnovic.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2016.
300			_a1 online resource (xviii, 717 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jan 2016).
520			_aContests are prevalent in many areas, including sports, rent seeking, patent races, innovation inducement, labor markets, scientific projects, crowdsourcing and other online services, and allocation of computer system resources. This book provides unified, comprehensive coverage of contest theory as developed in economics, computer science, and statistics, with a focus on online services applications, allowing professionals, researchers and students to learn about the underlying theoretical principles and to test them in practice. The book sets contest design in a game-theoretic framework that can be used to model a wide-range of problems and efficiency measures such as total and individual output and social welfare, and offers insight into how the structure of prizes relates to desired contest design objectives. Methods for rating the skills and ranking of players are presented, as are proportional allocation and similar allocation mechanisms, simultaneous contests, sharing utility of productive activities, sequential contests, and tournaments.
650		0	_aGame theory.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107033139
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519366
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