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How do different alliance mechanisms compare? In this work, we analyze various methods of forming an alliance in the Coalitional General Lotto game, a simple model of competitive resource allocation. In the game, Players 1 and 2…

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In this note, we prove the existence of an equilibrium concept, dubbed conditional strategy equilibrium, for non-cooperative games in which a strategy of a player is a function from the other players' actions to her own actions. We study…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-09 Lorenzo Bastianello , Mehmet S. Ismail

This paper studies an incentive structure for cooperation and its stability in peer-assisted services when there exist multiple content providers, using a coalition game theoretic approach. We first consider a generalized coalition…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jeong-woo Cho , Yung Yi

Coalitions naturally exist in many real-world systems involving multiple decision makers such as ridesharing, security, and online ad auctions, but the coalition structure among the agents is often unknown. We propose and study an important…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yixuan Even Xu , Chun Kai Ling , Fei Fang

We consider a wireless network in which there is a transmitter and a set of users, all of whom want to download a popular file from the transmitter. Using the framework of cooperative game theory, we investigate conditions under which users…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Anjali Yadav , Arya Agarwal , Alok Kumar , Tushar S. Muratkar , Gaurav S. Kasbekar

We present a new tool for the study of multiplayer stochastic games, namely the modified game, which is a normal-form game that depends on the discount factor, the initial state, and for every player a partition of the set of states and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Eilon Solan

Coalitional games serve the purpose of modeling payoff distribution problems in scenarios where agents can collaborate by forming coalitions in order to obtain higher worths than by acting in isolation. In the classical Transferable Utility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Gianluigi Greco , Enrico Malizia , Luigi Palopoli , Francesco Scarcello

We consider dynamic cooperative games, where the worth of coalitions varies over time according to the history of allocations. When defining the core of a dynamic game, we allow the possibility for coalitions to deviate at any time and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Ehud Lehrer , Marco Scarsini

We analyze cooperative Cournot games with boundedly rational firms. Due to cogni- tive constraints, the members of a coalition cannot accurately predict the coalitional structure of the non-members. Thus, they compute their value using…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Paraskevas V. Lekeas , Giorgos Stamatopoulos

This paper studies a significant problem in green networking called switching off base stations in case of cooperating service providers by means of stochastic geometric and coalitional game tools. The coalitional game herein considered is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Cengis Hasan , Eitan Altman , Jean-Marie Gorce , Dimitrios Tsilimantos , Manjesh K. Hanawal

We study the problem of partitioning a set of agents into coalitions based on the agents' additively separable preferences, which can also be viewed as a hedonic game. We apply three successively weaker solution concepts, namely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Michael McKay , Ágnes Cseh , David Manlove

This paper focuses on the fundamental challenge of partitioning input variables in attribution methods for Explainable AI, particularly in Shapley value-based approaches. Previous methods always compute attributions given a predefined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xinhao Zheng , Huiqi Deng , Quanshi Zhang

As Aumann stated, cooperation and non-cooperation are different ways of viewing the same game, with the main difference being whether players can reach a binding cooperative agreement. In the real world, many games often coexist competition…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiang Shuwen , Luo Enquan , Yang Yanlong

Cooperative game theory has diverse applications in contemporary artificial intelligence, including domains like interpretable machine learning, resource allocation, and collaborative decision-making. However, specifying a cooperative game…

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In previous studies of spatial public goods game, each player is able to establish a group. However, in real life, some players cannot successfully organize groups for various reasons. In this paper, we propose a mechanism of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-23 Han-Xin Yang , Zhen Wang

The core of Transferable Utility (T.U.) games is a well-known solution concept from cooperative game theory yielding a cost allocation among n agents (called players) forming a coalition that is stable (i.e. no subset of players has an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Nicolas Besson-Niebles , Sylvain Bouveret , Nadia Brauner , Nicolas Brulard

This paper introduces a unified framework called cooperative extensive form games, which (i) generalizes standard non-cooperative games, and (ii) allows for more complex coalition formation dynamics than previous concepts like…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-09-27 Mehmet S. Ismail

In this tutorial, the basics of game theory are introduced along with an overview of its most recent and emerging applications in signal processing. One of the main features of this contribution is to gather in a single paper some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-06 Giacomo Bacci , Samson Lasaulce , Walid Saad , Luca Sanguinetti

The emergence of structure in cooperative relation is studied in a game theoretical model. It is proved that specific types of reciprocity norm lead individuals to split into two groups. The condition for the evolutionary stability of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-01 Koji Oishi , Takashi Shimada , Nobuyasu Ito

This paper studies an incentive structure for cooperation and its stability in peer-assisted services when there exist multiple content providers, using a coalition game theoretic approach. We first consider a generalized coalition…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Jeong-woo Cho , Yung Yi