Avoiding unfairness of Owen allocations in linear production processes

Avoiding unfairness of Owen allocations in linear production processes

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Article ID: iaor20122417
Volume: 220
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 125
End Page Number: 131
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
Authors: , ,
Keywords: combinatorial optimization, game theory
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.

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