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Opportune moment strategies for a cost spanning tree game

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  • F. Fernández
  • M. Hinojosa
  • A. Mármol
  • J. Puerto

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Cost spanning tree problems concern the construction of a tree which provides a connection with the source for every node of the network. In this paper, we address cost sharing problems associated to these situations when the agents located at the nodes act in a non-cooperative way. A class of strategies is proposed which produce minimum cost spanning trees and, at the same time, are strong Nash equilibria for a non-cooperative game associated to the problem. They are also subgame perfect Nash equilibria. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2009

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  • F. Fernández & M. Hinojosa & A. Mármol & J. Puerto, 2009. "Opportune moment strategies for a cost spanning tree game," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 70(3), pages 451-463, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:mathme:v:70:y:2009:i:3:p:451-463
    DOI: 10.1007/s00186-008-0279-9
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    Keywords

    Non-cooperative games; Spanning trees; Nash equilibria; C72; D85;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation

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