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Games 2010, 1, 299-316; doi:10.3390/g1030299 OPEN ACCESS games ISSN 2073-4336 /journal/games Article Universally Balanced Combinatorial Optimization Games Gabrielle Demange and Xiaotie Deng Paris School of Economics, 48 bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France; E-Mail: demange@pse.ens.fr Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: deng@.hk. Received: 27 May 2010; in revised form: 18 August 2010 / Accepted: 23 August 2010 / Published: 13 September 2010 Abstract: This article surveys studies on universally balanced properties of cooperative games defined in a succinct form. In particular, we focus on combinatorial optimization games in which the values to coalitions are defined through linear optimization programs, possibly combinatorial, that is subject to integer constraints. In economic settings, the integer requirement reflects some forms of indivisibility. We are interested in the classes of games that guarantee a non-empty core no matter what are the admissible values assigned to the parameters defining these programs. We call such classes universally balanced. We present characterization and complexity results on the universally balancedness property for some classes of interesting combinatorial optimization games. In particular, we focus on the algorithmic properties for identifying universally balancedness for the games under d