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Characterizing the Shapley Value in Fixed-Route Traveling Salesman Problems with Appointments

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  • Duygu Yengin

    (School of Economics, University of Adelaide)

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Starting from her home, a service provider visits several customers, following a predetermined route, and returns home after all customers are visited. The problem is to ?nd a fair allocation of the total cost of this tour among the customers served. A transferable-utility cooperative game can be associated with this cost allocation problem. We intro- duce a new class of games, which we refer as the fixed-route traveling salesman games with appointments. We characterize the Shapley Value in this class using a property which requires thttps://media.adelaide.edu.au/economics/litting into a set of sponsors.

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  • Duygu Yengin, 2010. "Characterizing the Shapley Value in Fixed-Route Traveling Salesman Problems with Appointments," School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers 2010-32, University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy.
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    Keywords

    Fixed-route travelling salesman games; routing games; appointment games; the Shapley value; the core; transferable-utility games; merging and splitting proofness; networks; cost allocation;
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    • C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games

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