Cooperative Side Payments Games with Restricted Transferability

Alexandra B. Zinchenko, Lev S. Oganyan, Gennady G. Mermelshtejn

Southern Federal University, Melshakova s. 8a, Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russia

Abstract: This paper studies cooperative games in which distributed utility consists of indivisible units (discrete games). Such games are considered as a special subclass of NTU games. Relations between set-valued solutions of discrete game as well as relations between them and corresponding TU game solutions are described. Some existence conditions are obtained.

Keywords: discrete game, core, core cover, dominance core, dual core, stable set, balancedness.

Language: English