{"product_id":"contest-theory-milan-vojnovic-9781107033139","title":"Contest Theory: Incentive Mechanisms and Ranking Methods","description":"Contests are prevalent in many areas, including sports, rent seeking, patent races, innovation inducement, labor markets, scientific projects, crowdsourcing and other online services, and allocation of computer system resources. This book provides unified, comprehensive coverage of contest theory as developed in economics, computer science, and statistics, with a focus on online services applications, allowing professionals, researchers and students to learn about the underlying theoretical principles and to test them in practice. The book sets contest design in a game-theoretic framework that can be used to model a wide-range of problems and efficiency measures such as total and individual output and social welfare, and offers insight into how the structure of prizes relates to desired contest design objectives. Methods for rating the skills and ranking of players are presented, as are proportional allocation and similar allocation mechanisms, simultaneous contests, sharing utility of productive activities, sequential contests, and tournaments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Milan Vojnovic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107033136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107033139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.36h x 7.11w x 1.70d","brand":"Milan Vojnovic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43924034453759,"sku":"9781107033139","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_98385791-e130-4544-84a8-f7ac0c68eff4.jpg?v=1681068092","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contest-theory-milan-vojnovic-9781107033139","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}