| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Pricing European stock options using stochastic and fuzzy continuous time processes |
2012 |
5956 |
Over the past 40 years, much of mathematical finance has been built on the premise that stocks tend to move according to continuous-time stochastic processes, particularly geometric Brownian Motion. However, fuzzy set theory has recently been shown t... |
| The evolution of cooperation: a recreation of Axelrod’s computer tournament |
2017 |
2762 |
The iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma is a commonly studied game in Game Theory. Many real life situations, such as trench warfare during World War I, can be modeled by such a game. Robert Axelrod implemented a computer tournament in order to determine the... |
| Development of honesty in repeated signaling games |
2017 |
744 |
In a plant-pollinator system, plants have a multitude of potential signals, both visual and olfactory. Some signals are a by-product of pollen and nectar, while other can be positively correlated through pollinator conditioning. Successful pollinator... |
| Survival and reproduction: optimal resource allocation |
2017 |
548 |
All living organisms must allocate resources to their survival and to their reproduction. In this thesis, we use the mathematics of life history theory to determine the optimal allocation between the two. In particular, we derive equations of optimal... |
| Model of kleptoparasitism in the Onthophagus taurus: when to enter and leave a dung pat |
2010 |
1995 |
The female dung beetle Onthophagus taurus will sometimes engage in an extreme form of kleptoparasitism by stealing the brood ball of another female beetle, destroying the existing eggs, and replacing their own egg in the brood ball. Beetles will some... |