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Cooperative games, solutions and applications. (English) Zbl 0686.90043
The monograph presents the current state of knowledge in the area of cooperative games with finitely many players (in the characteristic function form) with special attention given to some topics of particular interest to the author and S. H. Tijs.
The first chapter includes definitions and several examples: a production economy, an exchange economy, the airport game, the bankruptcy game, the water resource development game and simple games. The second chapter reviews the solution concepts: Shapley value, stable sets, core, bargaining set, (pre)kernel, nucleolus and others. The fourth chapter presents results concerning the above concepts in the case of convex games.
The four remaining chapters deal with more specific problems: the Tijs’ $$\tau$$-value, game-theoretic concepts ($$\tau$$-value and nucleolus) in the cost allocation problems, division rules and bankruptcy problems (application of the Shapley value, nucleolus and $$\tau$$-value) and, finally, the author’s own theory of k-convex games.
Reviewer: A.Wieczorek

MSC:
 91A12 Cooperative games 91-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to game theory, economics, and finance 91A40 Other game-theoretic models 91B38 Production theory, theory of the firm 91B50 General equilibrium theory 91B60 Trade models 91B24 Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets)