… We begin our study with notions from cooperative games, graph theory, and combinatorial
structures that will be used throughout this book. As references for several of the topics …

… In this paper we have claimed that models to represent multiple networks should be
complemented with specific analysis tools exploiting their multi-layered structure. So, we have …

… Combinatorial optimization problems … -Cooperative Search to deal with these problems. A
number of distinguishable individuals, arranged in a certain topology, compete and cooperate …

… We then use the flow network to introduce a novel profit sharing scheme, which is based on
… mathematical model In this section we introduce the mathematical model for a combinatorial …

… In this chapter, we will consider combinatorial optimization problems in presence of a set A
of agents who wish to minimize their costs. Contrarily to what we will see in the next chapters, …

… Note that in this paper, we will discuss combinatorial optimization with the solutions
represented as binary vectors. However, all of the results can be trivially extended to higher …

… models as they have been applied in economic theory. Matching models also possess a rich
combinatorial structure that, while different from the structure of spanning tree networks, has …

… allow the processors in a parallel platform to cooperate by interchanging the local optima that
they find … The cooperation of processors can greatly benefit the resolution of combinatorial …

… to delve into three challenging combinatorial optimization games on networks: public goods
… positions in the fields of combinatorial optimization and theoretical computer science, but …

… employed for solving combinatorial optimization problems on … for each model developed for
solving a particular combinatorial … perspectives into understanding the models, their potential …