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A solution concept on a class of transferable utility coalitional games is a multifunction satisfying given criteria of economic rationality. Every solution associates a set of payoff allocations with a coalitional game. This general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Tomáš Kroupa

In game theory, mechanism design is concerned with the design of incentives so that a desired outcome of the game can be achieved. In this paper, we study the design of incentives so that a desirable equilibrium is obtained, for instance,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Julian Gutierrez , Muhammad Najib , Giuseppe Perelli , Michael Wooldridge

We study a cooperative game setting where the grand coalition may change since the initial players can invite more players. We focus on monotone games, i.e., adding more players to the grand coalition is not harmful. We model the invitation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yao Zhang , Dengji Zhao

We study efficient, linear, and symmetric (ELS) values, a central family of allocation rules for cooperative games with transferable-utility (TU-games) that includes the Shapley value, the CIS value, and the ENSC value. We first show that…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-06 Yukihiko Funaki , Yukio Koriyama , Satoshi Nakada , Yuki Tamura

In many multiagent scenarios, agents distribute resources, such as time or energy, among several tasks. Having completed their tasks and generated profits, task payoffs must be divided among the agents in some reasonable manner. Cooperative…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-16 Yair Zick , Georgios Chalkiadakis , Edith Elkind , Evangelos Markakis

The Shapley value equals a player's contribution to the potential of a game. The potential is a most natural one-number summary of a game, which can be computed as the expected accumulated worth of a random partition of the players. This…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-07-23 André Casajus , Yukihiko Funaki , Frank Huettner

Collaboration may be understood as the execution of coordinated tasks (in the most general sense) by groups of users, who cooperate for achieving a common goal. Collaboration is a fundamental assumption and requirement for the correct…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Agustín Santos Méndez , Antonio Fernández Anta , Luis López Fernández

Classical objectives in two-player zero-sum games played on graphs often deal with limit behaviors of infinite plays: e.g., mean-payoff and total-payoff in the quantitative setting, or parity in the qualitative one (a canonical way to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Mickael Randour

Numerous works propose post-hoc, model-agnostic explanations for learning to rank, focusing on ordering entities by their relevance to a query through feature attribution methods. However, these attributions often weakly correlate or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tanya Chowdhury , Yair Zick , James Allan

Gale and Shapley introduced a matching problem between two sets of agents where each agent on one side has an exogenous preference ordering over the agents on the other side. They defined a matching as stable if no unmatched pair can both…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Felipe Garrido-Lucero , Rida Laraki

In this paper, we provide a theoretically grounded and computationally efficient alternative to SHAP. To this end, we study feature attribution through the lens of cooperative game theory by formulating a class of XAI--TU games. Building on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kazuhiro Hiraki , Shinichi Ishihara , Takumi Kongo , Junnosuke Shino

We study the proportional division value in TU-games, which distributes the worth of the grand coalition in proportion to each player's stand-alone worth. Focusing on fixed-population consistency, we characterize the proportional division…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-10 Yukihiko Funaki , Yukio Koriyama , Satoshi Nakada , Yuki Tamura

Big Boss Games represent a specific class of cooperative games where a single veto player, known as the Big Boss, plays a central role in determining resource allocation and maintaining coalition stability. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Luis A. Guardiola , Ana Meca

Various peer-to-peer energy markets have emerged in recent years in an attempt to manage distributed energy resources in a more efficient way. One of the main challenges these models face is how to create and allocate incentives to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Liyang Han , Thomas Morstyn , Malcolm McCulloch

We introduce a game-theoretic approach to the study of recommendation systems with strategic content providers. Such systems should be fair and stable. Showing that traditional approaches fail to satisfy these requirements, we propose the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Omer Ben-Porat , Moshe Tennenholtz

We consider the problem in which n items arrive to a market sequentially over time, where two agents compete to choose the best possible item. When an agent selects an item, he leaves the market and obtains a payoff given by the value of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Fabien Gensbittel , Dana Pizarro , Jérôme Renault

Cooperative interval games are a generalized model of cooperative games in which the worth of every coalition corresponds to a closed interval representing the possible outcomes of its cooperation. Selections are all possible outcomes of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Jan Bok , Milan Hladík

Recently, strategic games inspired by Schelling's influential model of residential segregation have been studied in the TCS and AI literature. In these games, agents of k different types occupy the nodes of a network topology aiming to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Lata Narayanan , Yasaman Sabbagh , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Can classical game-theoretic frameworks be extended to capture the bounded rationality and causal reasoning of AI agents? We investigate this question by extending Causal Normal Form Games (CNFGs) to sequential settings, introducing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Dennis Thumm

Game-theoretic techniques and equilibria analysis facilitate the design and verification of competitive systems. While algorithmic complexity of equilibria computation has been extensively studied, practical implementation and application…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker , Gabriel Santos