Evolutionary games
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Evolutionary games
zbMATH Open document ID: 0548.90110
DOI: 10.1007/BF00939163
published in: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
publication date: 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper deals with a mathematical game. As the name implies, the game concept is formulated with biological evolution in mind. An evolutionary game differs from the usual game concepts in that the players cannot choose their strategies. Rather, the strategies used by the players are handed down from generation to generation. It is the survival characteristics of a strategy that determine the outcome of the evolutionary game. Players interact and receive payoffs according to the strategies they are using. These interactions, in turn, determine the fitness of players using a given strategy. The survival characteristics of a strategy are determined directly from the fitness functions. Necessary conditions for determining an evolutionarily stable strategy are developed here for a continuous game. Results are illustrated with an example.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91A40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92B05
zbMATH DE Number: 3875018
zbMATH Keywords: biological evolution game
zbMATH Keywords: survival characteristics
zbMATH Keywords: fitness functions
zbMATH Keywords: evolutionarily stable strategy
zbMATH Keywords: continuous game
author: Thomas L. Vincent
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00939163
OpenAlex ID: W4232007116
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3875018