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theory of games

n. (context mathematics economics English) An older term for game theory.

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theory of games

n. (economics) a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players [syn: game theory]

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But we have obvious other advantages: genetics, for instance, and operations research, the theory of games, the Dirac transmitter it's quite an arsenal, and of course there's a good deal of prediction involved in all those things.

To direct a war, or even to plan a single battle and mount the operation, you have to have theory of games, operational analysis, symbolic logic, pessimistic synthesis, and a dozen other skull subjects.

This suggests the need for value-free models, inspired by the structural analysis in von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, which will allow us to express what actually occurred functionally, without tainting our analysis with bias or moral judgments.