Coalitional games induced by matching problems: Complexity and islands of tractability for the Shapley value.

The paper focuses on cooperative games where the worth of any coalition of agents is determined by the optimal value of a matching problem on (possibly weighted) graphs. These games come in different forms that can be grouped in two broad classes, namely of matching and allocation games, and they have a wide spectrum of applications, ranging from two-sided markets where buyers and sellers are encoded as vertices in a graph, to allocation problems where indivisible goods have to be assigned (matched) to agents in a fair way, possibly using monetary compensations.