cost allocation

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

    Acyclic Mechanism Design for Freight Consolidation

  • Maged M. Dessouky
  • Alejandro Toriello
  • Nelson A. Uhan
  • Wentao Zhang
    • Categories Game Theory, Supply Chain Management, Transportation Tags , ,

    Freight consolidation is a logistics practice that improves the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of transportation operations, and also reduces energy consumption and carbon footprint. A “fair” shipping cost sharing scheme is indispensable to help establish and sustain the cooperation of a group of suppliers in freight consolidation. In this paper, we design a truthful acyclic mechanism … Read more