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Note Computing the nucleolus of min-cost spanning tree games is NP-hard

Jeroen Kuipers (), Ulrich Faigle () and Walter Kern ()
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Jeroen Kuipers: Instituto de Economia Publica, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Avda. Lehen-Dakari Aguirre 83, E-48015 Bilbao, Spain
Walter Kern: Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

International Journal of Game Theory, 1998, vol. 27, issue 3, 443-450

Abstract: We prove that computing the nucleolus of minimum cost spanning tree games is in general NP-hard. The proof uses a reduction from minimum cover problems.

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Date: 1998-11-02
Note: Received October 1997/Final version May 1998
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