Massimo Orazio Spata

DMI - Universita' di Catania

Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica

Universita' di Catania

Viale A. Doria, 6

95125 Catania - Italy

Room: 31 Blocco II, first floor

Tel: +39 095 738 3079

Email: spata (at) dmi.unict.it

My main research interest is Game Theory applied to Grid Computing: Game Theory is a branch of applied mathematics and economics that studies situations where players choose different actions in an attempt to maximize their returns.

First developed as a tool for understanding economic behavior and then by the RAND Corporation to define nuclear strategies, game theory is now used in many diverse academic fields, ranging from biology and psychology to sociology and philosophy.

Game theory has been used in political science, ethics and philosophy. Finally, game theory has recently drawn attention from computer scientists because of its use in artificial intelligence and cybernetics. [www.wikipedia.org]