Balanced Weights and Three-Sided Coalition Formation

Balanced Weights and Three-Sided Coalition Formation

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We consider three-sided coalition formation problems when each agent is concerned about Seeds his local status as measured by his relative rank position within the group of his own type and about his global status as measured by the weighted sum of the average rankings of the other types of groups.We show that a core stable coalition structure always exists, provided that the corresponding weights are balanced and each Microwave Rack Support agent perceives the two types of status as being substitutable.