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Complete null agent for games with externalities
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Game theory provides valuable tools to examine expert multi-agent systems. In a cooperative game, collaboration among agents leads to better outcomes. The most important solution for such games is the Shapley value, that coincides with the expected marginal contribution assuming equiprobability. This assumption is not plausible when externalities are present in an expert system. Generalizing the concept of marginal contributions, we propose a new family of Shapley values for situations with externalities. The properties of the Shapley value offer a rationale for its application. This family of values is characterized by extensions of Shapley's axioms: efficiency, additivity, symmetry, and the null player property. The first three axioms have widely accepted generalizations to the framework of games with externalities. However, different concepts of null players have been proposed in the literature and we contribute to this debate with a new one. The null player property that we use is weaker than the others. Finally, we present one particular value of the family, new in the literature, and characterize it by two additional properties.
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ALONSO-MEIJIDE, José Mª, et al. Complete null agent for games with externalities. Expert Systems with Applications. 2019. Vol. 135, num. November, pags. 1-11. ISSN 0957-4174. [consulted: 9 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/135180