Dear all, > > I am attempting to follow the developer guidelines and after applying for > a trac server account it is recommended to email this list with some > details of what I hope to do before opening a ticket. > > If it sounds like a good idea I'd like to open tickets with an aim to > develop some Game Theoretic capabilities in to Sage. Loosely this would > include the following: > > - A general class for a general game object, > - Classes for cooperative games, > - Class for matching games > - Classes for normal form games, > > Most of this is relatively simple to do however methods to solve normal > form games would require new algorithms to be written and/or and adaption > of the lrs package (http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~avis/C/lrs.html) (that I > understand 'lives' in Sage already somewhere...) >
We've already corresponded about this privately, but I wanted to publicly support this proposal and offer help with it, given that it is a lot closer to my current research than anything else in Sage ;-) In particular, I think it is very important to think carefully about exactly how subclassing can work so that the most stuff is available for later additions. For instance, one would be interested in making sure that any potential symmetries on games could be activated/used. I'll be interested to see how you make a class general enough for both the cooperative and non-cooperative theory! Good luck. Re: Gambit: "Gambit is Free/Open Source software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2." Would that then only be an optional package, license gurus? It also seems to have an interface with lrs - see http://www.gambit-project.org/gambit13/ideas.html#interface-with-lrslib At least compiling and its Python extension seems straightforward enough, also doesn't work on Windows without Cygwin, so it must be a perfect match ;-) In fact, they have several GSOC proposals this year: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/gambit Plus it's led by other UK people. I think it would really be worth looking into whether this is worth using the Python API for, even if it means changing your summer student's work description to at some point check out how much of what you want to do is a) already doable and b) could be "Sageified" without too many hoops. Anyway, no matter what the status of Gambit, this is a very good idea, because I want to be able to convince people in my field that computation is important. (Well, some people already think it is! But I want more.) - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
