Journal Article

·2018

A TRANSITION FROM TWO-PERSON ZERO-SUM GAMES TO COOPERATIVE GAMES WITH FUZZY PAYOFFS

Adem C. Çevikel YTU , Mehmet Ahlatçıoğlu YTU

Iranian journal of fuzzy systems

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with games with fuzzy payoffs. We proved that players who are playing a zero-sum game with fuzzy payoffs against Nature are able to increase their joint payoff, and hence their individual payoffs by cooperating. It is shown that, a cooperative game with the fuzzy characteristic function can be constructed via the optimal game values of the zero-sum games with fuzzy payoffs against Nature at which players' combine their strategies and act like a single player. It is also proven that, the fuzzy characteristic function that is constructed in this way satisfies the superadditivity condition. Thus we considered a transition from two-person zero-sum games with fuzzy payoffs to cooperative games with fuzzy payoffs. The fair allocation of the maximum payoff (game value) of this cooperative game among players is done using the Shapley vector.

Keywords

Stochastic game Fuzzy logic Mathematical economics Example of a game without a value Mathematics Superadditivity Zero (linguistics) Shapley value Repeated game Zero-sum game Symmetric game Bondareva–Shapley theorem Mathematical optimization Combinatorial game theory Normal-form game Game theory Computer science Artificial intelligence

Subject Areas

Multi-Criteria Decision Making ·Management Science and Operations Research ·Social Sciences
Game Theory and Voting Systems ·Economics and Econometrics ·Social Sciences
Fuzzy Systems and Optimization ·Statistics and Probability ·Physical Sciences

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