Article ID: | iaor20119268 |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 385 |
End Page Number: | 389 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2011 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Wang Qiong, Reiman Martin I, zen Ulas |
Keywords: | queueing systems |
We define some cooperative games in queueing systems as ‘single‐attribute games’. Such games have non‐empty cores if their characteristic functions are elastic. Moreover, the core contains a population monotonic allocation. The above properties apply to many games in Erlang B and C systems. Games with non‐elastic characteristic functions may have an empty core.