Contest Theory: Incentive Mechanisms and Ranking Methods(Hardcover)

Milan Vojnović

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商品描述

Contests 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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

競賽在許多領域中都很普遍,包括體育、尋租、專利競賽、創新誘因、勞動市場、科學項目、群眾外包和其他線上服務,以及電腦系統資源的分配。本書提供了經濟學、計算機科學和統計學中發展起來的競賽理論的統一、全面的涵蓋,重點放在線上服務應用上,讓專業人士、研究人員和學生能夠了解潛在的理論原則並在實踐中測試它們。本書將競賽設計置於博弈論框架中,可用於建模各種問題和效率指標,如總體和個體產出以及社會福利,並提供了有關獎勵結構與所需競賽設計目標之間關係的見解。書中介紹了評估技能和玩家排名的方法,以及比例分配和類似的分配機制、同時進行的競賽、共享生產活動的效用、連續競賽和錦標賽。