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Simulating Salience: Developing A Model Of Choice In The Visual Coordination Game, Adib Sedig Aug 2022

Simulating Salience: Developing A Model Of Choice In The Visual Coordination Game, Adib Sedig

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

This project is primarily inspired by three papers: Colin Camerer and Xiaomin Li’s (2019 working paper)—Using Visual Salience in Empirical Game Theory, Ryan Oprea’s (2020)—What Makes a Rule Complex?, and Caplin et. al.’s (2011)—Search and Satisficing. Over the summer, I worked towards constructing a model of choice for the visual coordination game that can model player behavior more accurately than traditional game theoretic predictions. It attempts to do so by incorporating a degree of bias towards salience into a cellular automaton search algorithm and utilizing it alongside a sequential search mechanism of satisficing. This …


The Economics Of Lotto, Ian Walker, Robert E. Pryce, Rhys Wheeler, Nick Powdathvee Jun 2016

The Economics Of Lotto, Ian Walker, Robert E. Pryce, Rhys Wheeler, Nick Powdathvee

International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking

No abstract provided.


Economics And Attitude: The Effects Of Happiness On Economic Development, Chris Pace Apr 2013

Economics And Attitude: The Effects Of Happiness On Economic Development, Chris Pace

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


Research Poster: Vulnerability To Climate Change And Policy Support In Rural Nevada, Ahmad Safi Feb 2010

Research Poster: Vulnerability To Climate Change And Policy Support In Rural Nevada, Ahmad Safi

2010 Annual Nevada NSF EPSCoR Climate Change Conference

Supervisor: Dr. William James Smith, Jr. Research poster