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Games induced by the partitioning of a graph

Article
Author/s: 
M. Grabisch, A. Skoda
Annals of Operations Research
Issue number: 
1
Publisher: 
Springer-Verlag
Year: 
2012
Journal pages: 
229-249
Webpage [1]
The paper aims at generalizing the notion of restricted game on a communication graph, introduced by Myerson. We consider communication graphs with weighted edges, and we define arbitrary ways of partitioning any subset of a graph, which we call correspondences. A particularly useful way to partition a graph is obtained by computing the strength of the graph. The strength of a graph is a measure introduced in graph theory to evaluate the resistance of networks under attacks, and it provides a natural partition of the graph (called the Gusfield correspondence) into resistant components. We perform a general study of the inheritance of superadditivity and convexity for the restricted game associated with a given correspondence. Our main result is to give for cycle-free graphs necessary and sufficient conditions for the inheritance of convexity of the restricted game associated with the Gusfield correspondence.
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Game Theory & Graphs [2]

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