Collaboration in transportation between two or more agents is becoming an important
approach to find efficient solutions or plans. Efficiency can be measured in, for example …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the game-theory literature on cost allocation.
Cost allocation not only provides internal signals that guide a firm's operations but also may …

Advanced Textbooks in Economics, Volume 23: Public Enterprise Economics: Theory and
Application focuses on economics, mathematical economics, and econometrics, including …

In modern transportation systems, the potential for further reducing costs is severely limited.
Increased competitiveness through cost reduction can be achieved if there is a collaboration …

Most literature on collaborative transportation has focused on cost allocation, assuming as
given which companies take part in the collaboration. However, a primary problem is the …

The firm energy of generation plants is a critical component in some electricity markets. It is
usually calculated by the regulator and sets a cap to the amount a plant can trade in capacity …

A new generation of content delivery networks for live streaming, video on demand, and
software updates takes advantage of a peer-to-peer architecture to reduce their operating …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses public sector pricing. Prices are an excellent
instrument for coordinating supply and demand, provided people who do not pay can be …

We analyze three subclasses of cooperative games arising from network optimization
problems in which the resources, such as arcs or nodes in the network, are controlled by …

We study the relation between the core of a given LP-game and the set of payoff vectors
generated by optimal dual solutions to the corresponding linear program. It is well known …