Section 1: Definitions and Examples

Key Learning Points

• Define the most widely studied model of coalitional games.
• Explore the examples of situations that can be modelled as coalitional games.

Activities

1. Read Section 12.1 of the text.
2. Watch the following videos:
   1. Coalitional Game Theory: Taste
   2. Coalitional Game Theory: Definitions
3. Do the following exercises:
   1. Show that the Airport game as described in Example 12.1.3 is convex.
   2. Can you give an example of proper simple games?
4. Discuss whether the Voting game, the Airport game, the Minimum Spanning Tree game, and the Auction game, as described in Example 12.1.2, Example 12.13, Example 12.1.4, and Example 12.1.5, respectively, are superadditive.