A cooperative location game based on the 1-center location problem

In this paper we introduce and analyze new classes of cooperative games related to facility location models defined on general metric spaces. The players are the customers (demand points) in the location problem and the characteristic value of a coalition is the cost of serving its members. Specific...

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Authors: Puerto Albandoz, Justo, Tamir, Arie, Perea Rojas-Marcos, Federico
Format: article
Status:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Publication Date:2011
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/42755
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/42755
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2011.04.020
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:cooperative combinatorial games
core solutions
radius
diameter
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Summary:In this paper we introduce and analyze new classes of cooperative games related to facility location models defined on general metric spaces. The players are the customers (demand points) in the location problem and the characteristic value of a coalition is the cost of serving its members. Specifically, the cost in our games is the service radius of the coalition. We study the existence of core allocations and the existence of polynomial representations of the cores of these games, focusing on network spaces, i.e., finite metric spaces induced by undirected graphs and positive edge lengths, and on the ℓp metric spaces defined over Rd.