Dynamics of profit-sharing games

John Augustine, Ning Chen, Edith Elkind, Angelo Fanelli*, Nick Gravin, Dmitry Shiryaev

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Abstract

An important task in the analysis of multiagent systems is to understand how groups of selfish players can form coalitions, i.e., work together in teams. In this paper, we study the dynamics of coalition formation under bounded rationality. We consider settings whereby each team’s profit is given by a submodular function and propose three profit-sharing schemes, each of which is based on the concept of marginal utility. The agents are assumed to be myopic, i.e.they keep changing teams as long as they can increase their payoff by doing so.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1-22
Number of pages22
JournalInternet Mathematics
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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