Call admission control (CAC) plays a significant role in providing the efficient use of the limited bandwidth and the desired qualityof-service (QoS) in mobile multimedia communications. As efficiency is an important performance issue for CAC in the mobile networks with multimedia services, the concept of fairness among services should also be considered. Game theory provides an appropriate fra...

When there is a dispute between players on how to divide multiple divisible assets, how should it be resolved? In this paper we introduce a multi-asset game model that enables cooperation between multiple agents who bargain on sharing K assets, when each player has a different value for each asset. It thus extends the sequential discrete Raiffa solution and the Talmud rule solution to multi-ass...

We show that the Aumann-Davis-Maschler bargaining set and the Mas-Colell bargaining set of a non-leveled NTU game that is either ordinal convex or coalition merge convex coincides with the core of the game. Moreover, we show by means of an example that the foregoing statement may not be valid if the NTU game is marginal convex.

This paper examines pricing policies for OPEC under the assumption that the cartel is composed of a block of s/~e~t/~r countries with large cash needs and a t.lock of .yuI’ercountrics with little immediate need for cash and a loHcr rate of discount. The decision problem for the twopart cartel is embodied in a game-theoretic framework and the optimal bargaining solution is computed using results...

The high cost associated with the rollout of 3G services encourages operators to share network infrastructure. Network sharing poses a new challenge in devising fair, efficient and Pareto optimal resource allocation strategies to distribute system resources among users of different operators in the network. Cooperative game theory provides a framework for formulating such strategies. In this pa...

Microeconomics offer a far developed theory on the subject of rational choice. This theory is applied to a multi-agent system, which has been modeled in order to establish schedules for operating theatres in general hospitals. A concept based on conjoint analysis is introduced in order to measure preferences of involved individuals and to establish corresponding individual utility functions. Ag...

We initiate a study of Nash bargaining games [Nas50] via combinatorial, polynomial time algorithms and we carry this program over to solving nonsymmetric bargaining games of Kalai [Kal77] as well. Since the solution to a Nash bargaining game is also the optimal solution to the corresponding convex program, this involves obtaining a combinatorial algorithm for the latter. This in turn can be vie...

W e analyze contracting behaviors in a two-tier supply chain system consisting of competing manufacturers and competing retailers. We contrast the contracting outcome of a Stackelberg game, in which the manufacturers offer take-itor-leave-it contracts to the retailers, with that of a bargaining game, in which the firms bilaterally negotiate contract terms via a process of alternating offers. Th...

Take-it or leave-it offers are probably as old as mankind. Our objective here is, first, to provide a, probably subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we discuss important extensions of the standard ultimatum bargaining game in a unified framework, and, third, we offer a survey of the experimental ultimatu...