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On core membership testing for hedonic coalition formation games

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Shao Chin Sung () (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Dinko Dimitrov () (Institute of Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University)

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We are concerned with the problem of core membership testing for hedonic coalition formation games, which is to decide whether a certain coalition structure belongs to the core of a given game. We show that this problem is co-NP complete when players' preferences are additive.

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Paper provided by Bielefeld University, Institute of Mathematical Economics in its series Working Papers with number 374.

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Keywords: additivity; coalition formation; core; co-NP completeness; hedonic games;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games
C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming - - - Computational Techniques

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  1. Dinko Dimitrov & Shao-Chin Sung, 2008. "Computational Complexity in Additive Hedonic Games," Working Papers 2008.98, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. [Downloadable!]
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