Multiplayer cooperative games

Introduction

In previous chapters of Multiplayer games we have introduced already the topic regarding multiplayer games. In other words many player games or n-player games are part of Game theory, which focuses on games where are more than two players. It is considered as games with n ≥ 2 players, and every player has d ≥ 2 strategies to choose.

In real world the people will confront much more often with multiplayer games, than with pure 2 player games. In some way, the whole life and surviving on this planet could be stated as a multiplayer game, because every living person has to choose the way to act (strategy) and therefore affect the others.

In this chapter we will take a look at the multiplayer cooperative games.

Cooperative games

Cooperative game theory deals with situations where objectives of participants of the game are partially cooperative and partially conflicting. It is in the interest of participants to cooperate in the sense of making binding agreements to achieve the maximum possible benefit. When it comes to distribution of benefit/payoffs, participants have conflicting interests. Such situations are usually modelled as cooperative games.