In coalition formation, a coalition is a set of distinct, autonomous agents or players which may cooperate in order to increase their individual gains, which we call as selfish cooperation.
A jamming coalition is a set of users, say, who decide not to communicate but instead get together and jam the channel for the remaining users, who constitute the communicating coalition.
We study coalitional games in which agents are each assumed to have a goal to be achieved, and where the characteristic property of a coalition is a set of choices, with each choice denoting a set of goals that would be achieved if the choice was made.
We formulate the problem as a linear program that finds the "best" partition or coalition structure among a set of ModRED modules.
This is what leads us to the more serious medium term political consideration, how can the two coalition parties agree a set of joint spending plans that spans the next election?
The United States must urgently work to forge an international coalition that constructs a set of genuine consequences for failing to implement what has already been negotiated.
After the meeting the coalition agreed upon a set of proposals to put forward to the Military Command for a transitional unity government.
Coalition formation is a fundamental approach to multi-agent coordination, and a key challenge in this context is the coalition structure generation problem, where a set of agents must be partitioned into the best set of coalitions.
Maybe in the next Parliament, in some future coalition, a coherent set of rules will be invented to allow the junior partner to register a bit of dissent.
Maybe the European Union's future is more "à la carte" — a set of coalitions of the willing, as it were.
The vote of No Confidence comes on the heels of two federal complaints filed by a coalition of students and faculty and a set of lawsuits filed by Gloria Allred.
