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Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Foraging Under Competition: Evolutionarily Stable Patch-Leaving Strategies with Random Arrival Times -- Evolution of Corn Oil Sensitivity in the Flour Beetle -- The Evolution of Gut Modulation and Diet Specialization as a Consumer-Resource Game -- Applications of Dynamic Games to Economics -- Time-Consistent Fair Water Sharing Agreements -- A Hybrid Noncooperative Game Model for Wireless Communications -- Incentive-Based Pricing for Network Games with Complete and Incomplete Information -- Incentive Stackelberg Strategies for a Dynamic Game on Terrorism -- Capital Accumulation, Mergers, and the Ramsey Golden Rule -- Economic Growth and Process Spillovers with Step-by-Step Innovation -- Supplier-Manufacturer Collaboration onNew Product Development -- A Differential Game of a Dual Distribution Channel -- Design Imitation in the Fashion Industry -- Formulating and Solving Service Network Pricing and Resource Allocation Games as Differential Variational Inequalities -- Numerical Methods and Algorithms in Dynamic Games -- Numerical Methods for Stochastic Differential Games: The Ergodic Cost Criterion -- Gradient Transformation Trajectory Following Algorithms for Determining Stationary Min-Max Saddle Points -- Singular Perturbation Trajectory Following Algorithms for Min-Max Differential Games -- Min-Max Guidance Law Integration -- Agent-Based Simulation of the N-Person Chicken Game -- The Optimal Trajectory in the Partial-Cooperative Game…”

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