This book presents a systematic overview on partition function form games: a game form in
cooperative game theory to integrate externalities for various applications. Cooperative game
theory has been immensely useful to study a wide range of issues but the standard approaches
ignore the side effects of cooperation. Recently interest shifted to problems where
externalities play the main roles such as models of cooperation in market competition or the
shared use of public resources. Such problems require richer models that can explicitly
evaluate the side-effects of cooperation. In partition function form games the value of
cooperation depends on the outsiders' actions. A recent surge of interest driven by
applications has made results very fragmented. This book offers an accessible yet
comprehensive and systematic study of properties solutions and applications of partition
function games surveying both theoretical results and their applications. It assembles a survey
of existing research and smaller original results as well as original interpretations and
comparisons. The book is self-contained and accessible for readers with little or no knowledge
of cooperative game theory.
