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Day 5

Do people and agents always act selfishly, maximizing their own utility? While much of game theory deals with competition between agents assuming selfish behavior, coalition or cooperative game theory looks at forming coalitions or teams of people. In the morning session we reviewed the fundamental concepts of coalition games including their structure, core and Shapley value.

A very lucidly written textbook on coalitional game theory (link to Amazon Website) is Ray: A Game Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation

In the afternoon sessions, there were short presentations on a topic related to game theory by students. The list of presentations is below. Presentation slides (combined into one pdf) from some of the students are available here.

Sayantan Sarkar, "User Preference Aggregation using Normal Form Games," 
Srinka Basu, "Graphical Games,"
Sayantan Santra, "Cake Cutting Game,"
Iman Pal, "Pareto Optimality vs. Nash Equilibrium,"
Saptarshi Misra, "Taxation Games,"
Dipyayan Chakraborty, "Games to Graphs" Transition in Quest to Efficiency"
Sujoy Bhore, "Games on Triangulation,"
Raghu Teja B. "Security with Games,"