On core membership testing for hedonic coalition formation games

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  • Shao Chin Sung
  • Dinko Dimitrov
چکیده

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. JEL Classi…cation : C71, C63.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Oper. Res. Lett.

دوره 35  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007