A SURVEY OF ALGORITHMS FOR CALCULATING POWER INDICES OF WEIGHTED MAJORITY GAMES

For measuring an individual's voting power of a voting game, some power indices are proposed. In this paper, we discuss the problems for calculating the Shapley-Shubik index, the Banzhaf index and the Deegan-Packel index of weighted majority games.

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