Matching games: the least core and the nucleolus

Walter Kern, Daniël Paulusma

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Abstract

A matching game is a cooperative game defined by a graph $G=(V,E)$. The player set is $V$ and the value of a coalition $S \subseteq V$ is defined as the size of a maximum matching in the subgraph induced by $S$. We show that the nucleolus of such games can be computed efficiently. The result is based on an alternative characterization of the least core which may be of independent interest. The general case of weighted matching games remains unsolved.
Original languageUndefined
Place of PublicationEnschede
PublisherUniversity of Twente
Number of pages18
Publication statusPublished - 2000

Publication series

NameMemorandum Faculteit TW
PublisherDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente
No.1541
ISSN (Print)0169-2690

Keywords

  • MSC-90C27
  • MSC-90D12
  • EWI-3361
  • IR-65728
  • METIS-141197

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