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Hedonic Games And Monte Carlo Simulation, Sheida Etemadidavan, Andrew J. Collins
Hedonic Games And Monte Carlo Simulation, Sheida Etemadidavan, Andrew J. Collins
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Hedonic games have applications in economics and multi-agent systems where the grouping preferences of an individual is important. Hedonic games look at coalition formation, amongst the players, where players have a preference relation over all the coalition. Hedonic games are also known as coalition formation games, and they are a form of a cooperative game with a non-transferrable utility game. Some examples of hedonic games are stable marriage, stable roommate, and hospital/residence problem. The study of hedonic games is driven by understanding what coalition structures will be stable, i.e., given a coalition structure, no players have an incentive to deviate …