Stable Structures of Coalitions in Competitive and Altruistic Military Teams

Abstract

In heterogeneous battlefield teams, the balance between team and individual objectives forms the basis for the internal topological structure of teams. The team structure is studied by presenting a graphical coalitional game (GCG) with Positional Advantage (PA). PA is Shapley value strengthened by the Axioms of value. The notion of team and individual objectives is studied by defining altruistic and competitive contribution made by an individual; altruistic and competitive contributions made by an agent are components of its total or marginal contribution. Moreover, the paper examines the dynamic team effects, by defining three online sequential decision games. These sequential decision games are based on marginal, competitive and altruistic contributions of the individuals towards team. The stable graphs under these sequential decision games are studied and found to be any connected, complete, or tree respectively.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 2013
Accession Number
ADA582590

Entities

People

  • Dariusz Mikulski
  • Edward Gu
  • F. L. Lewis
  • Gregory R. Hudas
  • M. Aurangzeb

Organizations

  • United States Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center

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  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

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  • Cooperative Games
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Game Theory
  • Graph Theory
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Information Operations
  • Mathematics
  • Personal Information Managers
  • Simulations
  • Theorems
  • Topology
  • United States
  • Universities

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  • Game Theory.
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.