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Precise Complexity of the Core in Dichotomous and Additive Hedonic Games
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Hedonic games provide a general model of coalition formation, in which a set of agents is partitioned into coalitions, with each agent having preferences over which other players are in her coalition. We prove that with additively separable preferences, it is $\Sigma_2^p$-complete to decide whether a core- or strict-core-stable partition exists, extending a result of Woeginger (2013). Our result holds even if valuations are symmetric and non-zero only for a constant number of other agents. We also establish $\Sigma_2^p$-completeness of deciding non-emptiness of the strict core for hedonic games with dichotomous preferences. Such results establish that the core is much less tractable than solution concepts such as individual stability.<br />Comment: ADT-2017, 15 pages in LNCS style
- Subjects :
- Computer Science - Computer Science and Game Theory
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1509.02333
- Document Type :
- Working Paper