Games in strategic form associated with hedonic games and connections between stability concepts within the games

Abstract

This paper provides an expression of games in strategic form associated with hedonic games to develop the methodology for strategy analysis within coalition formation. The preferences of each player is regarded as the strategies to construct games in strategic form associated with hedonic games. The result of the proposed games in strategic form associated with hedonic games is provided by a function which assigns a coalition structure to every strategy profile.
Connections stability concepts between hedonic games and the proposed games in strategic form associated with the hedonic games are investigated in this paper.