Novel Hedonic Games and Stability Notions [thesis]

Jacob Schlueter
2021
We present here work on matching problems, namely hedonic games, also known as coalition formation games. We introduce two classes of hedonic games, Super Altruistic Hedonic Games (SAHGs) and Anchored Team Formation Games (ATFGs), and investigate the computational complexity of finding optimal partitions of agents into coalitions, or finding - or determining the existence of - stable coalition structures. We introduce a new stability notion for hedonic games and examine its relation to core and
more » ... Nash stability for several classes of hedonic games.
doi:10.13023/etd.2021.116 fatcat:g3zdjaceurc7ngsocwp3ofrmmu