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Null, Nullifying, and Necessary Agents: Parallel Characterizations of the Banzhaf and Shapley Values

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  • José M. Alonso-Meijide

    (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

  • Julián Costa

    (Universidade da Coruña)

  • Ignacio García-Jurado

    (Universidade da Coruña)

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In a cooperative game, we consider three special kinds of agents: null, nullifying, and necessary agents. A coalition with a null agent receives the same payoff if this agent leaves the coalition, a coalition with a nullifying agent receives nothing, and a coalition without a necessary agent also receives nothing. The null agent property proposes zero payoff to any null agent. We introduce new properties that propose payoffs for nullifying and necessary players. With these three properties and additivity, we obtain new characterizations of the Banzhaf and Shapley values.

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  • José M. Alonso-Meijide & Julián Costa & Ignacio García-Jurado, 2019. "Null, Nullifying, and Necessary Agents: Parallel Characterizations of the Banzhaf and Shapley Values," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 180(3), pages 1027-1035, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joptap:v:180:y:2019:i:3:d:10.1007_s10957-018-1403-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s10957-018-1403-5
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