Many Agent Games in Socio-economic Systems: Corruption, Inspection, Coalition Building, Network Growth, Security

Vassili N. Kolokoltsov is a Professor with the  Department of Statistics,  University of Warwick. During his career he held various research and teaching positions in Russia, Germany, France, Mexico and UK. He received the St. Petersburg University award for "Research Work in 2011" for the book Understanding Game Theory, written jointly with O. A. Malafeyev.Oleg A. Malafeyev is the Head of the Department of Mathematical Modeling at St. Petersburg University (Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes). He is author of more than 200 research works, and several lecture notes, textbooks, and monographs regarding games and mathematical modeling. He received the St. Petersburg University award for "Research Work in 2011" for his book Understanding Game Theory, written jointly with V. N. Kolokoltsov.

• 1. Introduction: Main Models and LLN Methology.- Part I: Multi-agent Interaction and Nonlinear Markov Games.- 2. Best Response Principals.- 3. Dynamic Control of Major Players.- 4. Models of Growth Under Pressure.- Par II: Pools of Rational Optimizers.- 5. MFGs for Finite-state Models.- 6. Three State Model of Corruption and Inspection.- 7. Four State Model of Cyber-security.- 8. Turnpick Theory for MFGs on Two-dimensional Networks.

“This book is really worthy to be recommended to all who would want to extend their knowledge in game theory, decision sciences, economics and management sciences.” (Tadeusz Radzik, zbMATH 1431.91004, 2020)