Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/YuTQto The Pre-Kernel as a Tractable Solution for Cooperative Games An Exercise in Algorithmic Game Theory By: Holger Ingmar Meinhardt Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9783642395482, 3642395481 eText ISBN: 9783642395499, 364239549X Copyright year: 2014 Format: EPUB Available from $ 109.00 USD SKU 9783642395499 This present book provides an alternative approach to study the pre-kernel solution of transferable utility games based on a generalized conjugation theory from convex analysis. Although the pre-kernel solution possesses an appealing axiomatic foundation that lets one consider this solution concept as a standard of fairness, the pre-kernel and its related solutions are regarded as obscure and too technically complex to be treated as a real alternative to the Shapley value. Comprehensible and efficient computability is widely regarded as a desirable feature to qualify a solution concept apart from its axiomatic foundation as a standard of fairness. We review and then improve an approach to compute the pre-kernel of a cooperative game by the indirect function. The indirect function is known as the Fenchel-Moreau conjugation of the characteristic function. Extending the approach with the indirect function, we are able to characterize the pre-kernel of the grand coalition simply by the solution sets of a family of quadratic objective functions.
