TY - GEN AU - Narahari, Y TI - Game theory and mechanism design SN - 9789814525046 U1 - 519.3 PY - 2014/// CY - Singapore: PB - World Scientific Publishing Company KW - Description based upon print version of record KW - Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web KW - Computer networks KW - Computer science KW - Economics, Mathematical N2 - This book offers a self-sufficient treatment of a key tool, game theory and mechanism design, to model, analyze, and solve centralized as well as decentralized design problems involving multiple autonomous agents that interact strategically in a rational and intelligent way. The contents of the book provide a sound foundation of game theory and mechanism design theory which clearly represent the "science" behind traditional as well as emerging economic applications for the society. The importance of the discipline of game theory has been recognized through numerous Nobel prizes in economic sci ER -