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We propose a class of cooperative games, called d Partitioned Compbinatorial Optimization Games (PCOGs). The input of PCOG consists of a set of agents and a combinatorial structure (typically a graph) with a fixed optimization goal on this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiehua Chen , Christian Hatschka , Sofia Simola

In rational verification, the aim is to verify which temporal logic properties will obtain in a multi-agent system, under the assumption that agents ("players") in the system choose strategies for acting that form a game theoretic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Julian Gutierrez , Szymon Kowara , Sarit Kraus , Thomas Steeples , Michael Wooldridge

Hedonic games -- at the interface of cooperative game theory and computational social choice -- are coalition formation games in which the players have preferences over the coalitions they can join. Kerkmann et al. [13] introduced…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jörg Rothe , Ildikó Schlotter

The computation of a solution concept of a cooperative game usually employs values of all coalitions. However, in some applications, the values of some of the coalitions might be unknown due to high costs associated with their determination…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Martin Cerny , Michel Grabisch

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 investigate a routing game that allows for the creation of coalitions, within the framework of cooperative game theory. Specifically, we describe the cost of each coalition as its maximin value. This represents the performance that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Gideon Blocq , Ariel Orda

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…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Filip Úradník , David Sychrovský , Jakub Černý , Martin Černý

The work we present in this paper initiated the formal study of fractional hedonic games, coalition formation games in which the utility of a player is the average value he ascribes to the members of his coalition. Among other settings,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Haris Aziz , Florian Brandl , Felix Brandt , Paul Harrenstein , Martin Olsen , Dominik Peters

Cooperative interval game is a cooperative game in which every coalition gets assigned some closed real interval. This models uncertainty about how much the members of a coalition get for cooperating together. In this paper we study…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Jan Bok

This paper defines a general class of cooperative games for which the nucleolus is efficiently computable. This class includes new members for which the complexity of computing their nucleolus was not previously known. We show that when the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Jochen Koenemann , Justin Toth

The game of SET is a popular card game in which the objective is to form Sets using cards from a special deck. In this paper we study single- and multi-round variations of this game from the computational complexity point of view and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-26 Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

The core of a cooperative game on a set of players $N$ is one of the most popular concept of solution. When cooperation is restricted (feasible coalitions form a subcollection $\cF$ of $2^N$), the core may become unbounded, which makes it…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-08 Michel Grabisch

Cooperative games provide a framework to study cooperation among self-interested agents. They offer a number of solution concepts describing how the outcome of the cooperation should be shared among the players. Unfortunately, computational…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ayumi Igarashi , Rani Izsak , Edith Elkind

We study the properties of the core and other solution concepts of Bel coalitional games, that generalize classical coalitional games by introducing uncertainty in the framework. In this uncertain environment, we work with contracts, that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Michel Grabisch , Silvia Lorenzini

We study the computational complexity of an important property of simple, regular and weighted games, which is decisiveness. We show that this concept can naturally be represented in the context of hypergraph theory, and that decisiveness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Andreas Polyméris , Fabián Riquelme

With increasing game size, a problem of computational complexity arises. This is especially true in real world problems such as in social systems, where there is a significant population of players involved in the game, and the complexity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Tatsuya Iwase , Takahiro Shiga

We study bargaining games between suppliers and manufacturers in a network context. Agents wish to enter into contracts in order to generate surplus which then must be divided among the participants. Potential contracts and their surplus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-14 MohammadHossein Bateni , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Nicole Immorlica , Hamid Mahini

In this dissertation, we analyze the computational properties of game-theoretic centrality measures. The key idea behind game-theoretic approach to network analysis is to treat nodes as players in a cooperative game, where the value of each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Piotr Lech Szczepański

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

Hedonic games model settings in which a set of agents have to be partitioned into groups which we call coalitions. In the enemy aversion model, each agent has friends and enemies, and an agent prefers to be in a coalition with as few…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Martin Durand , Laurin Erlacher , Johanne Müller Vistisen , Sofia Simola