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We consider a team formation setting where agents have varying levels of expertise in a global set of required skills, and teams are ranked with respect to how well the expertise of teammates complement each other. We model this setting as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Bugra Caskurlu , Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya , Berkehan Ozen

Hedonic diversity games are a variant of the classical Hedonic games designed to better model a variety of questions concerning diversity and fairness. Previous works mainly targeted the case with two diversity classes (represented as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Dušan Knop , Šimon Schierreich , Ondřej Suchý

We study stability in additively separable hedonic games when coalition sizes have to respect fixed size bounds. We consider four classic notions of stability based on single-agent deviations, namely, Nash stability, individual stability,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Martin Bullinger , Adam Dunajski , Edith Elkind , Matan Gilboa

A community needs to be partitioned into disjoint groups; each community member has an underlying preference over the groups that they would want to be a member of. We are interested in finding a stable community structure: one where no…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ayumi Igarashi , Jakub Sliwinski , Yair Zick

Hedonic games are an archetypal problem in coalition formation, where a set of selfish agents want to partition themselves into stable coalitions. In this work, we focus on two natural constraints on the possible outcomes. First, we require…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Foivos Fioravantes , Harmender Gahlawat , Nikolaos Melissinos , Šimon Schierreich

Coalition formation over graphs is a well studied class of games whose players are vertices and feasible coalitions must be connected subgraphs. In this setting, the existence and computation of equilibria, under various notions of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Angelo Fanelli , Laurent Gourvès , Ayumi Igarashi , Luca Moscardelli

In coalition formation games self-organized coalitions are created as a result of the strategic interactions of independent agents. For each couple of agents $(i,j)$, weight $w_{i,j}=w_{j,i}$ reflects how much agents $i$ and $j$ benefit…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Gianpiero Monaco , Luca Moscardelli , Yllka Velaj

Research regarding the stable marriage and roommate problem has a long and distinguished history in mathematics, computer science and economics. Stability in this context is predominantly core stability or one of its variants in which each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Haris Aziz

Additively Separable Hedonic Game (ASHG) are coalition-formation games where we are given a graph whose vertices represent $n$ selfish agents and the weight of each edge $uv$ denotes how much agent $u$ gains (or loses) when she is placed in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Tesshu Hanaka , Noleen Köhler , Michael Lampis

We study uncoordinated matching markets with additional local constraints that capture, e.g., restricted information, visibility, or externalities in markets. Each agent is a node in a fixed matching network and strives to be matched to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Martin Hoefer , Lisa Wagner

We study relationships between different relaxed notions of core stability in hedonic games, which are a class of coalition formation games. Our unified approach applies to a newly introduced family of hedonic games, called $\alpha$-hedonic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Tom Demeulemeester , Jannik Peters

In hedonic diversity games (HDGs), recently introduced by Bredereck, Elkind and Igarashi (2019), each agent belongs to one of two classes (men and women, vegetarians and meat-eaters, junior and senior researchers), and agents' preferences…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Niclas Boehmer , Edith Elkind

We revisit the complexity of the well-studied notion of Additively Separable Hedonic Games (ASHGs). Such games model a basic clustering or coalition formation scenario in which selfish agents are represented by the vertices of an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Tesshu Hanaka , Michael Lampis

We study how stability can be maintained even after any set of at most k players leave their groups, in the context of hedonic games. While stability properties ensure an outcome to be robust against players' deviations, it has not been…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Ayumi Igarashi , Kazunori Ota , Yuko Sakurai , Makoto Yokoo

The additively separable hedonic game (ASHG) is a model of coalition formation games on graphs. In this paper, we intensively and extensively investigate the computational complexity of finding several desirable solutions, such as a Nash…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Tesshu Hanaka , Hironori Kiya , Yasuhide Maei , Hirotaka Ono

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

Additively separable hedonic games and fractional hedonic games have received considerable attention. They are coalition forming games of selfish agents based on their mutual preferences. Most of the work in the literature characterizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Michele Flammini , Gianpiero Monaco , Qiang Zhang

Hedonic games are a prominent model of coalition formation, in which each agent's utility only depends on the coalition she resides. The subclass of hedonic games that models the formation of general partnerships, where output is shared…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Bugra Caskurlu , Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya

Computing stable partitions in hedonic games is a challenging task because there exist games in which stable outcomes do not exist. Even more, these No-instances can often be leveraged to prove computational hardness results. We make this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Valentin Zech , Martin Bullinger

In multiplayer games with sequential decision-making, self-interested players form dynamic coalitions to achieve most-preferred temporal goals beyond their individual capabilities. We introduce a novel procedure to synthesize strategies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 A. Kaan Ata Yilmaz , Abhishek Kulkarni , Ufuk Topcu