Reduction of Ultrametric Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Games to Cost Allocation Games on Rooted Trees
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A minimum cost spanning tree game is called ultrametric if the cost function on the edges of the underlying network is an ultrametric. We show that every ultrametric minimum cost spanning tree game is reduced to a cost allocation game on a rooted tree. It follows that there exist O(n) time algorithms for computing the Shapley value, the nucleolus and the egalitarian allocation of the ultrametric minimum cost spanning tree games, where n is the number of players.
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RIMS-1674 Reduction of Ultrametric Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Games to Cost Allocation Games on Rooted Trees By
A minimum cost spanning tree game is called ultrametric if the cost function on the edges of the underlying network is ultrametric. We show that every ultrametric minimum cost spanning tree game is a cost allocation game on a rooted tree. It follows that there exist optimal algorithms for computing the Shapley value, the nucleolus and the egalitarian allocation of the ultrametric minimum cost s...
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