The clustering problem has been addressed in many contexts and by researchers in many disciplines; this reflects its broad appeal and usefulness as one of the steps in exploratory data analysis. Clustering is the unsupervised classification of patterns into groups. However, clustering...

In chapter 1, we consider the possibility of Secure Implementation in Production Economies beyond the result provided in the Saijo et al. (2007) paper. We find a large class of SCFs to be securely implementable. The serial SCF and the widely studied Fixed Path SCFs which contains serial SCF as a...

We consider a class of cooperative network games with transferable utilities in which players interact through a probabilistic network rather than a regular, deterministic network. In this class of wealth-generating situations we consider probabilistic extensions of the Myerson value and the...