Avoiding unfairness of Owen allocations in linear production processes

This paper deals with cooperation situations in linear production problems in which a set of goods are to be produced from a set of resources so that a certain benefit function is maximized, assuming that resources not used in the production plan have no value by themselves. The Owen set is a well-k...

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Autores: Perea Rojas Marcos, Federico, Puerto Albandoz, Justo, Fernández García, Francisco Ramón
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2012
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositório:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/56504
Acesso em linha:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/56504
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Allocations
Cooperative games
Linear production games
Benefit functions
Cooperative game
Linear production
Linear production game
Optimal production
Production plans
Solution set
Stability properties
Game theory
Optimization
Planning
Production control
Project management
Stability
Production engineering
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Resumo:This paper deals with cooperation situations in linear production problems in which a set of goods are to be produced from a set of resources so that a certain benefit function is maximized, assuming that resources not used in the production plan have no value by themselves. The Owen set is a well-known solution rule for the class of linear production processes. Despite their stability properties, Owen allocations might give null payoff to players that are necessary for optimal production plans. This paper shows that, in general, the aforementioned drawback cannot be avoided allowing only allocations within the core of the cooperative game associated to the original linear production process, and therefore a new solution set named EOwen is introduced. For any player whose resources are needed in at least one optimal production plan, the EOwen set contains at least one allocation that assigns a strictly positive payoff to such player. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.