A General View about Games Abstention, Absence, Alternatives

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https://doi.org/10.14665/1614-4007-24-2-007

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Cooperative Games, Characteristic Function, Alternatives, Abstention, Absence

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new and more general kind of cooperative games in which players have many alternatives to choose, or many goals to try to realize, but also have the possibility of abstaining or of being absent for a while. In these games we define coalitions and study their properties observing how it is possible to obtain all the classical definitions of cooperative game theory inside this new setting.

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A General View about Games Abstention, Absence, Alternatives. (1). Journal Transition Studies Review, 24(2), 89-93. https://doi.org/10.14665/1614-4007-24-2-007

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