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A new family of finite solutions

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This paper describes a new infinite class of finite and “partially symmetric” von Neumann-Morgenstern solutions for some direct (simple) majority games in coalitional form.

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  1. School of O.R. & I.E., Cornell University, 334 Upson Hall, 14853, Ithaca, N.Y., USA

    W. F. Lucas,  K. Michaelis &  M. Rabie

  2. Department of Information Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 0-okayama, Meguro-ku, 152, Tokyo, Japan

    S. Muto

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This research has been supported in part by NSF grants MCS 7728392 and MCS 8102353 and by ONR contract N00014-75-C-0678.

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Lucas, W.F., Michaelis, K., Muto, S. et al. A new family of finite solutions. Int J Game Theory 11, 117–127 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01755723

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