This chapter surveys a sizable and growing literature on coalition formation. We refer to
theories in which one or more groups of agents (“coalitions”) deliberately get together to …

The aim of this tutorial is to provide an overview, although necessarily incomplete, of game
theory (GT) for signal processing (SP) in networks. One of the main features of this …

A Course in Game Theory presents the main ideas of game theory at a level suitable for
graduate students and advanced undergraduates, emphasizing the theory's foundations …

An economic model of trading in commodities that are inherently indivisible, like houses, is
investigated from a game-theoretic point of view. The concepts of balanced game and core …

Game theoretical techniques have recently become prevalent in many engineering
applications, notably in communications. With the emergence of cooperation as a new …

It is suggested that the most natural mathematical model for a market with" perfect
competition" is one in which there is a continuum of traders (like the continuum of points on a …

Task execution in multi-agent environments may require cooperation among agents. Given
a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consider situations where …

One of the problems in economics that economists have devoted a considerable amount of
attention in prevalent years has been to ensure consistency in the models they employ …

To describe how the outcome of a cooperative game might depend on which groups of
players hold cooperative planning conferences, we study allocation rules, which are …

In his Mathematical Psychics [5], Edgeworth presented a remarkable study of the exchanges
of two commodities that might arise in an economy with two types of consumers. The first …