Marginality and the position value

Weak differential marginality and the Shapley value

The principle of differential marginality for cooperative games states that the differential of two players’ payoffs does not change when the differential of these players’ productivities does not change. Together with two standard properties, efficiency and the null player property, differential marginality characterizes the Shapley value. For games that contain more than two players, we show ...

Marginality Approach To Shapley Value In Games With Externalities

Identity and Marginality

Studying identities, the processes of their formation and the ways in which they are both shaped by and help to shape wider social and cultural contexts is a key preoccupation in many disciplines of the arts, humanities and social sciences. These fields of academic inquiry are principally concerned with human beings, their thoughts and beliefs, the ways in which they interact with one another a...

A modified position value for communication situations and its fuzzification

Myerson treated various situations of cooperation in the field of cooperative games and proposed the communication structure. In this paper, we define and characterize an allocation rule in terms of the position value, called an average spanning tree solution, for communication situations by introducing a concept of cooperation relationship which says that two players are deemed to possess this...

The value of marginality in a medical school: general practice and curriculum change.

OBJECTIVE To report the process of introduction, development and sustenance of a curriculum for a department of general practice in the context of changing curricula required by the General Medical Council. SETTING AND CONTEXT Tayside Centre for General Practice, the Department of General Practice within Dundee University Medical School. METHODS Use of action research methodology common in ...