CS3191
The Theory of Games and Game Models
Andrea Schalk
A.Schalk@cs.man.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science
University of Manchester
September 1, 2003
About this course
This is an introduction into the theory of games and the use of games to model a variety of
situations. It is directed at third year computer science students. As such it contains some
proofs, as well as quite a bit of material which is not part of what is classically understood
as game theory. This course is usually taught as CS3192 in the second semester, so most
references you'll nd will be to that (for example regarding old papers).
What this course is about
Games have been used with great success to describe a variety of si