THE GREAT COURSES” . Business & Economics - > Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond Taught by: Professor Scott P. Stevens James Madison University Parts1&2 Course Guidebook ? THE TEACHING COMPANYGames People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond Parts | & Il Scott P. Stevens, Ph.D.PUBLISHED BY: THE TEACHING COMPANY 4151 Lafayette Center Drive, Suite 100 Chantilly, Virginia 20151-1232 1-800-TEACH-2 Fax—703-378-3819 www.teach12.com Copyright © The Teaching Company, 2008 Printed in the United States of America This book is in copyright. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic. mechanical, photocopying. recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of The Teaching Company. Scott P. Stevens, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Information ems and Management Science James Madison University Professor Scott P. Stevens is Professor of Computer Information Systems and Management Science at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia. In 1979, he received B.S. degrees in both Mathematics and Physics from The Pennsylvania State University. where he was first in his graduating class in the College of Science. In 1987, Stevens received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from The Pennsylvania State University, working under the direction of Torrence Parsons. Parsons himself received his Ph.D. under the direction of Albert W. Tucker, the well-known game theorist. After Parson’s unexpected death in 1987, Stevens completed his doctoral work under George E. Andrews. the world’s leading expert in the study of integer partitions. Dr. Stevens’s doctoral thesis was “Group-Action Graphs and Ramsey Graph Theory: Investigating the Ramsey Numbers R(Kj ns Kyun) ANd ROK ne By)” Professor Stevens's research interests include combinatorics, game theory, graph theory. statistics. and neural networks. In collaboration with his [MU colleagues, he has published articles on a wide range of topics. These include papers on neural network prediction of survival in blunt- ijured patients: the effect of private-school competition on public schools: standards of ethical computer usage in different countries: automatic data collection in business; and optimization of the purchase. transportation. and deliverability of natural gas from the Gulf of Mexico, His publications have appeared in the Ewropean Journal of Operations Research. International Journal of Operations and Production Management; Political Research Quarterly: Omega: The International Journal of Management Science; Neural Computing and Applications: INFORMS Transactions on Education: Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education: and in a number of conference proceedings. Much of his recent research focuses on the more effective delivery of mathematical concepts to students. Professor Stevens has consulted to a number of firms, including Corning Glass, C&P Telephone, and the Globaltee Corporation. He is a member of the American Mathematical Association, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. and Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity. ©2008 The Teaching Company i