Potentials and reduced games for share functions

Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 307, Issue 19-20, 2007, Pages 2385-2399

  van den Brink, René ^a   van der Laan, Gerard ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperative transferable utility game; Potential; Reduced game; Share function

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTORS;

COOPERATIVE TRANSFERABLE UTILITY GAME; REDUCED GAME; SHARE FUNCTION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 34547931439     PISSN: 0012365X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2006.09.045     Document Type: Article

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