Abstract:A new solution is presented for transferable utility games with graph communication where the cooperation possibilities are represented by a graph. Players are only able to cooperate and obtain some worth in a coalition if they form a connected set in the given graph. To determine the payoff for each player, a single-valued solution, the communication tree value, is proposed for this class of games. The idea is that to form the grand coalition of all players a player can join a set of players only if this play… Show more
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