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Formulated independently by Olga Bondareva and Lloyd Shapley in the 1960s.
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Bondareva-Shapley theorem
Today it means: A theorem that describes a necessary and sufficient condition for the non-emptiness of the core of a cooperative game in characteristic function form. The game's core is non-empty if and only if the game is balanced. Full definition →