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Simple games are a powerful tool to analyze decision-making and coalition formation in social and political life. In this paper we present relational models of simple games and develop relational algorithms for solving some game-theoretic basic problems. The algorithms immediately can be transformed into the language of the Computer Algebra system RelView and, therefore, the system can be used to solve the problems and to visualize the results of the computations.
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Berghammer, R., Rusinowska, A., de Swart, H. (2011). Computations on Simple Games Using RelView . In: Gerdt, V.P., Koepf, W., Mayr, E.W., Vorozhtsov, E.V. (eds) Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing. CASC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23568-9_5
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