Professor Kim Seung-wook's Published Academic Book Indexed in PsycINFO

'Game Theory Applications in Network Design' (https://www.igi-global.com/book/game-theory-applications-network-design/99436), an academic book published by Professor Kim Seung-wook of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, was indexed in PsycINFO in November 2022. Published in 2014 by the distinguished international publisher IGI Global (Pennsylvania, USA), the book explains how game theory — mathematically grounded and long used in economics — can be applied to network design. Since publication it has been selected as a key reference work in the field and included in the reading lists of related graduate courses in several countries. IGI Global has recognized the book's academic contribution by designating it a recommended title, and it was formally indexed in Scopus in September 2017.

PsycINFO, run by the American Psychological Association (APA), is the largest database for psychology and sociology. Preserving as digital records the outstanding scholarly research produced in psychology over the past 50 years and providing citation data from more than 2,500 journals, PsycINFO is the most trusted and comprehensive academic index in psychology. Game theory is the mathematical analysis of how competing parties seek to select rational means of effectively achieving their own interests while taking account of their counterparts' responses. Applied in its early days to mathematics, economics and political science, game theory is now widely applied in communication networks, sociology, military studies, management and psychology as well.

The various game models for communication networks presented in Professor Kim Seung-wook's 'Game Theory Applications in Network Design' — congestion control, network routing, network load balancing, communication security, bandwidth pricing, wireless cooperative communication, traffic control, power control, resource allocation and quality-of-service guarantee models — can be widely applied not only in communication networks but also in psychology, where the most rational action is chosen while taking account of a competing counterpart's response. Its indexing in PsycINFO is therefore expected to contribute greatly to the advancement of psychology.