| Article ID: | iaor2009576 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 158 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 63 |
| End Page Number: | 79 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2008 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Magaa Antonio, Llongueras M. Dolors |
| Keywords: | social, behaviour |
The coordination of strategies in a cooperative game, when some players decide to act together, is the basis of the partnership notion. Nevertheless, in some situations, it may be more convenient to form an effective coalition or alliance. In this work, we consider the Banzhaf semivalue and use it to discuss the convenience to form either partnerships or alliances, especially in simple games.