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We show that any cooperative game can be represented by an assignment of costly facilities to players, in which it is intuitively obvious how to allocate the total cost in an equitable manner. This equitable solution turns out to be the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-01-19 Pradeep Dubey

A simple game $(N,v)$ is given by a set $N$ of $n$ players and a partition of~$2^N$ into a set~$\mathcal{L}$ of losing coalitions~$L$ with value $v(L)=0$ that is closed under taking subsets and a set $\mathcal{W}$ of winning coalitions $W$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Frits Hof , Walter Kern , Sascha Kurz , Kanstantsin Pashkovich , Daniël Paulusma

We consider the problem of payoff division in indivisible coalitional games, where the value of the grand coalition is a natural number. This number represents a certain quantity of indivisible objects, such as parliamentary seats, kidney…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mikołaj Czarnecki , Michał Korniak , Oskar Skibski , Piotr Skowron

We provide a unifying, black-box tool for establishing existence of approximate equilibria in weighted congestion games and, at the same time, bounding their Price of Stability. Our framework can handle resources with general…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Diogo Poças

Definable zero-sum stochastic games involve a finite number of states and action sets, reward and transition functions that are definable in an o-minimal structure. Prominent examples of such games are finite, semi-algebraic or globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Jérôme Bolte , Stéphane Gaubert , Guillaume Vigeral

Capacitated network bargaining games are popular combinatorial games that involve the structure of matchings in graphs. We show that it is always possible to stabilize unit-weight instances of this problem (that is, ensure that they admit a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Laura Sanità , Lucy Verberk

Five different ways of combinatorial description of non-empty faces of the cone of supermodular functions on the power set of a finite basic set $N$ are introduced. Their identification with faces of the cone of supermodular games allows…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Milan Studený

In cooperative game theory, games in partition function form are real-valued function on the set of so-called embedded coalitions, that is, pairs $(S,\pi)$ where $S$ is a subset (coalition) of the set $N$ of players, and $\pi$ is a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-02-22 Michel Grabisch

This paper explores a PAC (probably approximately correct) learning model in cooperative games. Specifically, we are given $m$ random samples of coalitions and their values, taken from some unknown cooperative game; can we predict the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Maria-Florina Balcan , Ariel D. Procaccia , Yair Zick

In this work we study the sets of two-party correlations generated from a Bell scenario involving two spatially separated systems with respect to various physical models. We show that the sets of classical, quantum, no-signaling and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Jamie Sikora , Antonios Varvitsiotis

I introduce cooperative product games (CPGs), a cooperative game where every player has a weight, and the value of a coalition is the product of the weights of the players in the coalition. I only look at games where the weights are at…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-03 David Rosales

We define and analyze the notion of variational Wardrop equilibrium for nonatomic aggregative games with an infinity of players types. These equilibria are characterized through an infinite-dimensional variational inequality. We show, under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Paulin Jacquot , Cheng Wan

We introduce the notion of exchangeable equilibria of a symmetric bimatrix game, defined as those correlated equilibria in which players' strategy choices are conditionally independently and identically distributed given some hidden…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Noah D. Stein , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo A. Parrilo

Reward allocation, also known as the credit assignment problem, has been an important topic in economics, engineering, and machine learning. An important concept in reward allocation is the core, which is the set of stable allocations where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Nam Phuong Tran , The Anh Ta , Shuqing Shi , Debmalya Mandal , Yali Du , Long Tran-Thanh

The core is a dominant solution concept in economics and cooperative game theory; it is predominantly used for profit, equivalently cost or utility, sharing. This paper demonstrates the versatility of this notion by proposing a completely…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-09-07 Vijay V. Vazirani

Cooperative 2-matching games are a generalization of cooperative matching games, where the value function is given by maximum-weight b-matchings, for a vertex capacity vector $b \leq 2$. We show how to separate over the core of 2-matching…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Laura Sanità , Lucy Verberk

The Shapley value is the solution concept in cooperative game theory that is most used in both theoretical as practical settings. Unfortunately, computing the Shapley value is computationally intractable in general. This paper focuses on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Tom C. van der Zanden , Hans L. Bodlaender , Herbert J. M. Hamers

This paper introduces constrained correlated equilibrium, a solution concept combining correlation and coupled constraints in finite non-cooperative games. In the general case of an arbitrary correlation device and coupled constraints in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Omar Boufous , Rachid El-Azouzi , Mikaël Touati , Eitan Altman , Mustapha Bouhtou

This paper studies a large class of two-player perfect-information turn-based parity games on infinite graphs, namely those generated by collapsible pushdown automata. The main motivation for studying these games comes from the connections…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Christopher H. Broadbent , Arnaud Carayol , Matthew Hague , Andrzej S. Murawski , C. -H. Luke Ong , Olivier Serre

We propose a computationally feasible way of deriving the identified features of models with multiple equilibria in pure or mixed strategies. It is shown that in the case of Shapley regular normal form games, the identified set is…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-02-25 Alfred Galichon , Marc Henry