Publications
Refereed Journal Publications
Causes of Stability in Dynamic Coalition Formation.
N. Boehmer, M. Bullinger, and A. Kerkmann.
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, vol 13, no. 2, 6:1-6:45, April 2025.
The Complexity of Verifying Popularity and Strict Popularity in Altruistic Hedonic Games.
A. Kerkmann and J. Rothe.
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 38, no. 2, Article 47, October 2024.
Altruism in Coalition Formation Games.
A. Kerkmann, S. Cramer, and J. Rothe.
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 92, no. 3, pp. 601-629, June 2024.
Altruistic Hedonic Games.
A. Kerkmann, N. Nguyen, L. Rey, A. Rey, J. Rothe, L. Schend, and A. Wiechers.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 75, pp. 129-169, September 2022.
US2RO: Union of Superpoints to Recognize Objects.
M. Tiator, A. Kerkmann, C. Geiger, and P. Grimm.
International Journal of Semantic Computing, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 513-537, December 2021.
Local Fairness in Hedonic Games via Individual Threshold Coalitions.
A. Kerkmann, N. Nguyen, and J. Rothe.
Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 877, pp. 1-17, July 2021.
Hedonic Games with Ordinal Preferences and Thresholds.
A. Kerkmann, J. Lang, A. Rey, J. Rothe, H. Schadrack, and L. Schend.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 67, pp. 705-756, April 2020.
Refereed Publications in Conference Proceedings
Core Stability in Altruistic Coalition Formation Games.
M. Hoffjan, A. Kerkmann, and J. Rothe.
Proceedings of the 16th Latin American
Theoretical Informatics Symposium (LATIN 2024), Puerto Varas, Chile. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 14579, pages 320-333, March 2024.
Causes of Stability in Dynamic Coalition Formation.
N. Boehmer, M. Bullinger, and A. Kerkmann.
Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023), Washington D.C., USA. AAAI Press, pages 5499-5506, February 2023.
Popularity and Strict Popularity in Altruistic Hedonic Games and Minimum-Based Altruistic Hedonic Games (Extended Abstract).
A. Kerkmann and J. Rothe.
Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022), Auckland, New Zealand, virtual conference. IFAAMAS, pages 1657-1659, May 2022.
Four Faces of Altruistic Hedonic Games.
A. Kerkmann and J. Rothe.
Nonarchival proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC 2021), Technion, Haifa, Israel, June 2021.
Altruism in Coalition Formation Games.
A. Kerkmann and J. Rothe.
Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), Yokohama, Japan. ijcai.org, pages 347-353, July 2020.
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preliminary version appeared in the nonarchival website proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM 2020), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. January 2020.
Using Semantic Segmentation to Assist the Creation of Interactive VR Applications.
M. Tiator, A. Kerkmann, C. Geiger, and P. Grimm.
Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2020), Kumamoto, Japan. IEEE Press, pages 1-9, July 2020.
Stability in FEN-Hedonic Games for Single-Player Deviations.
A. Kerkmann and J. Rothe.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019), Montréal, Canada. IFAAMAS, pages 891-899, May 2019.
Technical Report
Altruism in Coalition Formation Games.
S. Cramer, A. Kerkmann, and J. Rothe.
Technical Report arXiv:2301.05674v1 [cs.GT], ACM Computing Research Repository (CoRR), 20 pages, January 2023.
PhD Thesis
An Axiomatic and Computational Analysis of Altruism, Fairness, and Stability in Coalition Formation Games.
A. Kerkmann.
PhD Thesis. Institut für Informatik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, 235 pages, September 2022.
Winner of the Best Dissertation 2022 Award of the Math.-Nat. Faculty of Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
Master Thesis
Stabilität in FEN-hedonischen Spielen.
A. Kerkmann.
Master Thesis. Institut für Informatik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, 53 pages, March 2019.