A coalition as a group of agents aims to work jointly to earn much more gains as a result of
their cooperation. Many existing studies assumed that members take advantage of joining …

In this paper, we study the problem of cooperative interference management in an OFDMA
two-tier small cell network. In particular, we propose a novel approach for allowing the small …

With the popularity of proximity-based services, device-to-device (D2D) communication
underlaying cellular networks is a promising technology to cope with the growing demands …

With the rapid growth of sensor technology, smartphone sensing has become an effective
approach to improve the quality of smartphone applications. However, due to time-varying …

An agent-based negotiation team is a group of interdependent agents that join together as a
single negotiation party due to their shared interests in the negotiation at hand. The reasons …

This paper introduces a novel approach that enables a number of cognitive radio devices
that are observing the availability pattern of a number of primary users (PUs), to cooperate …

Cooperative games with overlap** coalitions (OCF games)[3, 23] model scenarios where
agents can distribute their resources among several tasks; each task generates a profit …

Overlap** Coalition Formation (OCF) games, introduced by Chalkiadakis, Elkind,
Markakis, Polukarov and Jennings in 2010, are cooperative games where players can …

Modern cellular networks are witnessing an unprecedented evolution from classical
centralized and homogenous architectures into a mix of various technologies, in which the …

Spectrum pooling has been shown to have a great potential to improve the spectrum
utilization, especially when primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) are allowed to …