We consider collusion in path procurement auctions, where payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show that collusion can increase the utility of the agents, and in som...
Focus is here on coalitional games among economic agents plagued by aggregate pollutions of diverse sorts. Any contracting player presumably pollutes less than if he defects. In a...
Multiagent systems is an attractive problem solving approach that is becoming ever more feasible and popular in today’s world. It combines artificial intelligence (AI) and distr...
A strong equilibrium (Aumann 1959) is a pure Nash equilibrium which is resilient to deviations by coalitions. We define the strong price of anarchy to be the ratio of the worst c...
The agents in multiagent systems can coordinate their actions and handle tasks jointly by forming coalitions. One of the important steps in this process is the fair division of pa...