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EOR
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
A relation-algebraic approach to simple games
Simple games are a powerful tool to analyze decision-making and coalition formation in social and political life. In this paper, we present relation-algebraic models of simple game...
Rudolf Berghammer, Stefan Bolus, Agnieszka Rusinow...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Game Theoretical Analysis of Cooperative Sourcing Scenarios
As an emerging trend in outsourcing, cooperative sourcing is the merging of similar processes of several firms when, for example, several banks merge their payments processing and...
Daniel Beimborn, Hermann-Josef Lamberti, Tim Weitz...
MFCS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The Cost of Stability in Network Flow Games
The core of a cooperative game contains all stable distributions of a coalition’s gains among its members. However, some games have an empty core, with every distribution being ...
Ezra Resnick, Yoram Bachrach, Reshef Meir, Jeffrey...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
124views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Coalitional games on graphs: core structure, substitutes and frugality
We study mechanisms that can be modelled as coalitional games with transferable utilities, and apply ideas from mechanism design and game theory to problems arising in a network d...
Rahul Garg, Vijay Kumar, Atri Rudra, Akshat Verma