Displays are one of the major system energy consumers in smartphones. Power consumption of Organic LightEmitting Diode (OLED) displays have direct relationship with the colour and intensity of the contents being displayed. Games are one of the most popular smartphone applications that consume relatively more resources and power. In this paper, we present Human Visual System (HVS) aware algorith...

Power indices suggest that adding new members to a voting body may affect the balance of power between the original members even if their number of votes and the decision rule remain constant. Some of the original members may actually gain even if voters are bargaining over a fixed budget. We show that this phenomenon can occur as an equilibrium of a non-cooperative bargaining game based on the...

The aim of this paper is to determine how the place of a player in a network of communications ̊ affects her bargaining power with respect to the others. We adapt the Rubinstein-Stahl two-player noncooperative bargaining game of alternating offers to the case of n players connected through a graph. We show that this game has a unique stationary subgame perfect equilibrium outcome from which we d...

This paper introduces a class of coalitional games, called pillage games, as a model of Hobbesian anarchy. Any coalition can pillage, costlessly and with certainty, any less powerful coalition. Power is endogenous, so a pillage game does not have a characteristic function, but pillage provides a domination concept that defines a stable set, which represents an endogenous balance of power. Every...

The coordinated development of power grid and load is one of the basic factors to optimize the social resources and to improve the equipment utilization. The decision makers of power grid and load are different. And their focuses are also different. These may result the two partner may of missing each other in the development. And these may lead to occurrence of idle equipment or bayonet of pow...

The main fundamental question in cooperative game theory is the question how to allocate the total generated wealth by the collective of all players—the player set N itself—over the different players in the game. In other words, what binding contract between the players in N has to be written? Various criteria have been developed. In this chapter I investigate contracts that are stable against ...

We generalize the class of apex game by combining a winning coalition of symmetric minor players with a collection of apex sets which can form winning coalitions only together with a fixed quota of minor players. By applying power indices to these games and their subgames we generate players’ preferences over coalitions which we use to define a coalition formation game. We focus on strongly mon...

This paper presents an easy-to-understand application of formal methods—specifically, model checking. Through an example based on the popular game Sudoku, I demonstrate the power and simplicity of this technology as implemented within Simulink®—a development environment for Model-Based Design. The overarching theme to consider is an analogy of the game to real-world constraint problems. The int...