Cooperative game theory is a branch of (micro-) economics that studies the behavior of self-
interested agents in strategic settings where binding agreements among agents are …

Bitcoin is an innovative decentralized cryptocurrency whose core security relies on a “proof
of work” procedure, which requires network participants to repeatedly compute hashes on …

1 Her work has been supported in part by an NRW grant for gender-sensitive universities
supporting her as a junior professor for Computational Social Choice and by the project …

Weighted voting games provide a simple model of decision-making in human societies and
multi-agent systems. Such games are described by a set of players, a list of playersʼ …

Although the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV−) defect in nanodiamonds is
desirable for a variety of biomedical applications, a range of other defect complexes …

Based upon the theoretical perspective from Uses and Gratifications (U&G) theory, this study
develops a nomological model to explain how incentivized gamification, hedonic presence …

Inspired by the study of control scenarios in elections and complementing manipulation and
bribery settings in cooperative games with transferable utility, we introduce the notion of …

Cellular Network Providers (CNP) provide users with wireless data access to meet the
growing ubiquitous demand for the Internet. As users subscribe to a fixed data plan for a …

Following Zhang and Grossi~(AAAI 2021), we study in more depth a variant of weighted
voting games in which agents' weights are induced by a transitive support structure. This …

We investigate synergy, or lack thereof, between agents in cooperative games, building on
the popular notion of Shapley value. We think of a pair of agents as synergistic (resp …