The aim of this book, the first of two volumes, is to present selected research that
has been undertaken under COST Action IC0902 ‘‘Cognitive Radio and Net-
working for Cooperative Coexistence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks’’
(http://newyork.ing.uniroma1.it/IC0902/). COST (European Cooperation in SCI-
ence and Technology) is one of the longest-running European frameworks sup-
porting cooperation among SCIentists and researchers across Europe.
Much of Game Theory has developed within the community of Economists,
starting from the book “Theory of Games and Economic behavior” by Mor-
genstern and Von Neumann (1944). To a lesser extent, it has had an impact on
biology (with the development of evolutionarygames) and on road traffic Engi-
neering (triggered by the concept of Wardrop equilibrium introduced already
in 1952 along with the Beckmann potential approach introduced in 1956).
Since 1999 game theory has had a remarkable penetration into computer SCI-
ence with the formation of the community of Algorithmic game theory.
