| Article ID: | iaor199228 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Start Page Number: | 403 |
| End Page Number: | 410 |
| Publication Date: | May 1991 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Jornsten Kurt O. |
| Keywords: | networks |
The paper considers the problem of allocating the costs among the users of a pipeline transportation system. The cost allocation problem is solved using cooperative game theory. The paper shows how the nucleolus of the network design game can be calculated when the characteristic function is given implicitly as the solution of a mathematical programming problem.