Loe Schlicher

Collection points placement in urban delivery: A game-theoretic analysis of public and competitive strategies

  • Fabio Mercurio
  • Margarida Carvalho
  • S.U.K Rohmer
  • Loe Schlicher
  • Tom Van Woensel
    • Categories Facility Planning and Design, Game Theory Tags , , , ,

    Collection point networks are rapidly expanding as delivery companies and public authorities promote their implementation to consolidate deliveries and reduce urban congestion. However, rather than catering to public interest by maximizing accessibility, the placement of collection points remains primarily driven by competition among delivery companies, which seek to maximize their market share. This paper thus … Read more

    Cost allocation in maintenance clustering

  • Andries van Beek
  • Loe Schlicher
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Game Theory Tags , , , ,

    Inspired by collaborative initiatives in the military domain, we analyze a setting in which multiple different players (e.g., Ministries of Defence) have to carry out preventive maintenance jobs. Each player is responsible for one job, with a job-specific minimal frequency and with maintenance costs, consisting of a job-specific variable component and a fixed component, which … Read more

    Time-dependent Stackelberg Protection Location Games

  • Lotte van Aken
  • Loe Schlicher
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Game Theory Tags , ,

    We study a Stackelberg game in which a government positions rapid response teams and thereafter a terrorist attacks a location on a line segment. We assume the damage associated to such an attack to be time dependent. We show that there exists a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium that balances the possible damage on all intervals … Read more

    Scheduling Bodyguards

  • Loe Schlicher
    • Categories Game Theory Tags , ,

    Security agencies throughout the world use bodyguards to protect government officials and public figures. In this paper, we consider a two-person zero-sum game between a defender who allocates such bodyguards to protect several targets and an attacker who chooses one target to attack. Because the number of feasible bodyguard allocations grows quickly as either the … Read more

    Cooperative locker locations games

  • Fabio Mercurio
  • Loe Schlicher
  • S.U.K Rohmer
  • Tom Van Woensel
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Game Theory, Other Topics Tags , ,

    More and more people order products online and have parcels delivered to their homes. This leads to more congestion, negatively impacting the environment, public health, and safety. Carriers can use parcel lockers to consolidate and serve their customers to reduce these negative impacts. The implementation of a locker network can, however, be financially challenging. To … Read more