A cooperative game with transferable utility (TU-game) describes a situation in which all players can freely interact with each other, i.e. every coalition of players is able to form and cooperate. However, this is not the case in many real world scenarios. A typical situation is when there exists a restriction on the communication possibilities among players. Different approaches to model the ...

Network situations as introduced by Jackson and Wolinsky (1996) incorporate the influence of the architecture of a network rather than just the connectivity it provides and thereby provide a more flexible setting than communication situations, which consist of a game with transferable utility and a network. We characterize the position value for network situations along the lines of the charact...

We characterize the position value for arbitrary hypergraph communication situations. The position value is first presented by the Shapley value of the uniform hyperlink game or the k-augmented uniform hyperlink game, which are obtained from the given hypergraph communication situation. These results generalize the non-axiomatic characterization of the position value for communication situation...

In real-world applications, evidence detection involves evaluating a body of existing information from time-evolving multi-modal data sources. It seems obvious that approaches to evidence detection should consider the relative quality of data sources with respect to the value of information being produced over time. For instance, considering all data sources equally reliable can yield undesirab...

This paper provides a non-symmetric generalization of the position value for communication situations. The definition of the weighted position value is motivated by the two different kinds of asymmetry in communication situations. It is shown that the weighted position value is characterized by component efficiency and a modification of balanced link contributions that is used by Slikker (Inter...

Cross-organizational collaborations have a high complexity. Modelling these collaborations can be done from different perspectives. For example, the value perspective represents expected value exchanges in a collaboration while the coordination perspective represents the order in which these exchanges occur. How to maintain consistency between different models during design time as well as runt...

We use the axiomatization of the position value for network situations in van den Nouweland and Slikker (2012) to define a position value for partition function form network situations by generalizing the axioms to the partition function form value function setting as studied in Navarro (2007) and then showing that there exists a unique allocation rule satisfying these axioms. We call this allo...

This paper addresses the problem of exploring an unknown area with a team of autonomous robots using decentralized decision making techniques. The localization aspect is not considered and it is assumed the robots share their positions and have access to a map updated with all explored areas. A key problem is then the coordination of decentralized decision processes: each individual robot must ...