Coalitional stability in structured environments

11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012, AAMAS 2012: Innovative Applications Track

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 168-175

  Chalkiadakis, Georgios ^a   Markakis, Evangelos ^b   Jennings, Nicholas R ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Cooperative game theory; Core

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; GAME THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS; COALITION FORMATIONS; COALITION STRUCTURE; COALITIONAL STABILITIES; COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY; CORE; STABLE CONFIGURATION; STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT;

STABILITY;

EID: 84899465729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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