Cooperative game theory deals with situations where objectives of
participants of the game are partially cooperative and partially
conflicting. It is in the interest of participants to cooperate in the
sense of making binding agreements to achieve the maximum possible
benefit. When it comes to distribution of benefit/payoffs, participants
have conflicting interests. Such situations are usually modelled as
cooperative games. While the book mainly discusses transferable utility
games, there is also a brief analysis of non-transferable utility games.
Alternative solution concepts to cooperative game theoretic problems are
presented in chapters 1-9 and the next four chapters present issues
related to computations of solutions discussed in the earlier chapters.
The proofs of all results presented in the book are quite explicit.
Additionally the mathematical techniques employed in demonstrating the
results will be helpful to those who wish to learn application of
mathematics for solving problems in game theory.