data envelopment analysis (dea) and balanced scorecard (bsc) are two well-known approaches for measuring performance of decision making units (dmus). bsc is especially applied with quality measures, whereas, when the quantity measures are used to evaluate, dea is more appropriate. in the real-world, dmus usually have complex structures such as network structures. one of the well-known network s...

Flow theory offers an individualistic explanation of media enjoyment, while cooperative learning theory posits a social explanation for enhanced learning in groups. This classroom-based experimental study examines whether game players can experience both conditions and the influence of each on several types of civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions. We find that high quality cooperative lear...

The epistemic program can be viewed as a methodical construction of game theory from its most basic elements—rationality and irrationality, belief and knowledge about such matters, beliefs about beliefs, knowledge about knowledge, and so on. To date, the epistemic field has been mainly focused on game matrices and trees—i.e., on the non-cooperative branch of game theory. It has been used to pro...

The problem of mapping tasks onto a computational grid with the aim to minimize the power consumption and the makespan subject to the constraints of deadlines and architectural requirements is considered in this paper. To solve this problem, we propose a solution from cooperative game theory based on the concept of Nash Bargaining Solution. The proposed game theoretical technique is compared ag...

Game Theory, as a mathematical abstraction for modelling decision problems in competitive and collaborative environments, has proven to be a useful tool in many fields. In cooperative games, players are intended to develop collaborative strategies by forming coalitions in order to maximize their expected return. Concepts like interaction and utility redistribution become pivotal notions of this...

Five approaches in conflict resolution are distinguished, based on cooperativeness and aggressiveness in resolving conflict. Compromise based on cooperativeness is emphasized here as a solution in conflict resolution. Cooperative game theory oriented towards aiding the conflict resolution is considered and the compromise value for TU(transferable utility)-game is presented. The method VIKOR cou...

In the game theory approach to the problem of allocating cost, the users of a facility are viewed as players in a cooperative n-person game. It is the nature of cooperative games that the power of each one of the 2"-' possible coalitions is taken into account. Thus, practical problems of allocating cost may be intractable in the game theory approach because of the computational complexity invol...

This paper proposes a new negotiation game, based on the weighted voting paradigm in cooperative game theory, where agents need to form coalitions and agree on how to share the gains. Despite the prevalence of weighted voting in the real world, there has been little work studying people’s behavior in such settings. We show that solution concepts from cooperative game theory (in particular, an e...