Title
Avoiding unfairness of Owen allocations in linear production processes.
Abstract
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. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.ejor.2012.01.013
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cooperative games,Linear production games,Allocations
Drawback,Mathematical optimization,Mathematical economics,Economics,Production control,Scheduling (production processes),Game theory,Solution set,Operations management,Production engineering,Project management,Stochastic game
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
220
1
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Federico Perea1709.83
Justo Puerto271773.21
Francisco R. Fernández317618.42