Article ID: | iaor2003694 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 54 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 303 |
End Page Number: | 313 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
Journal: | Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (Heidelberg) |
Authors: | Tijs Stef H., Timmer J., Brnzei R. |
Keywords: | information |
This paper studies information collecting (IC) situations with the help of cooperative game theory. Relations are established between IC situations and IC games on one hand and information sharing (IS) situations and IS games on the other hand. Further, it is shown that IC games are convex combinations of so-called local games. Properties such as