the average rankings of the other types of groups. We show that a core stable coalition structure always exists, provided …

We show that the core of each strongly size monotonic hedonic game is not empty and is externally stable. This is in … sharp contrast to other sufficient conditions for core non-emptiness which do not even guarantee the existence of a stable … set in such games. -- Core ; Hedonic Games ; Monotonicity ; Stable Sets …

the clan by a "dualize and extend" procedure. These procedures are also useful for relating core elements and elements of … the Weber set of the corresponding games. -- Convex games ; Core , Dual games ; Marginal games ; Total clan games ; Weber …

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. -- Additivity ; Coalition formation ; Core ; Co-NP completeness ; Hedonic games …

We show that the core of each strongly size monotonic hedonic game is not empty and is externally stable. This is in … sharp contrast to other sufficient conditions for core non-emptiness which do not even guarantee the existence of a stable …

characterize the core as a function of the utility's parameter values and show that in all cases the corresponding cores are non …-empty. We further discuss the core stable outcomes in terms of their segregating versus integrating properties …

the clan by a "dualize and extend" procedure. These procedures are also useful for relating core elements and elements of …