WORKING PAPER MANSHOLT GRADUATE SCHOOL Determination of stable coalitions in a CO2 emission game

Cooperative aggregate production planning: a game theory approach

Production costs in general, and workforce and inventory costs in particular, constitute a large fraction of the operating costs of many manufacturing plants. We introduce cooperative aggregate production planning as a way to decrease these costs. That is, when production planning of two or more facilities (plants) is integrated, they can interchange workforce and products inventory; thus, thei...

MANSHOLT GRADUATE SCHOOL Correcting for multiple destination trips in recreational use values using a mean - value approach

A novel cooperative game between client and subcontractors based on technical characteristics

Large projects often have several activities which are performed by some subcontractors with several skills. Costs and time reduction and quality improvement of the project are very important for client and subcontractors. Therefore, in real large projects, subcontractors join together and form coalitions for improving the project profit. A key question is how an extra profit of cooperation amo...

Broad-based collaborations in education: strategic coalitions for constructing knowledge about the local conditions of schooling

Introduction Schooling continues to shortchange those students who need it most. Along with other most basic needs, opportunities to develop intellectual and social capitals at school elude vast numbers of young people around the globe. Where schools exist, they maintain an essentially modernist and universal form in a sea of shifting economic, political and social formations. Whilst this form ...

Cooperative vehicle routing problem: an opportunity for cost saving

In this paper, a novel methodology is proposed to solve a cooperative multi-depot vehicle routing problem. We establish a mathematical model for multi-owner VRP in which each owner (i.e. player) manages single or multiple depots. The basic idea consists of offering an option that owners cooperatively manage the VRP to save their costs. We present cooperative game theory techniques for cost savi...