In this paper we consider cooperative games in which the possibilities for cooperation between the players are … restricted because communication between the players is restricted. The bilateral communication possibilities are modeled by … means of a (communication) graph. We are interested in how the communication restrictions influence the game. In particular …

In this paper we introduce an extension of the model of restricted communication in cooperative games as introduced in … Myerson (1977) by allowing communication links to be directed and the worth of a coalition to depend on the order in which the … players enter the coalition. Therefore, we model the communication network by a directed graph and the cooperative game by a …

characterizations are still valid for games with communication structures a la Myerson when using the notion of the reduced … is shown that, if communication structures are present, the core may still be characterized on balanced TU games, on … interesting domains of TU and NTU games. As a byproduct we construct, for any NTU game with communication structure, a certain …

which they usually take different positions. Two examples of such structures are communication networks and hierarchies. In … feasible sets in communication networks and compare them with feasible sets arising from hierarchies …

In this paper we study cooperative games with limited cooperation possibilities, represented by an undirected cycle …-free communication graph. Players in the game can cooperate if and only if they are connected in the graph, i.e. they can communicate …

denoting how one player cares for the other's payoff, we can take the relations between players into account in games and … extend the use of games theory. In this study the effect of cheap talk was analyzed by using the new game model. Two examples … the results of games …

Communication is well known to increase cooperation rates in social dilemma situations, but the exact mechanisms behind … this have been questioned and discussed. This study examines the impact of communication on public good provisioning in an … experimental findings, we observe a strong increase in cooperation when face-to-face communication is allowed before decision …

We introduce an efficient solution for games with communication graph structures and show that it is characterized by … communication graph the total payoff to the players of this component in the game itself to the total payoff of these players when …

others creating socially suboptimal outcomes. We investigate if and how communication mitigates the strategic delay in … introducing communication into this setting reduces strategic delay. We implement our model in a laboratory experiment utilizing a … 2x2 design, where we vary the availability of communication and the number of agents. We find that communication …

In this paper we study inheritance properties of average convexity in communication situations. We show that the … study inheritance of (average) convexity of the associated potential games …