Connection Problems in Mountains and Monotonic Allocation Schemes

Sociedad de Estadistica e Investigacidn Operativa Top, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 83-99, 2002

17 Pages Posted: 26 Mar 2011

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Stefano Moretti

University of Genoa - Department of Mathematics

Henk Norde

Tilburg University - Center For Economic Research; Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research

Kim Hang Pham Do

Massey University

Stef H. Tijs

Tilburg University - Center For Economic Research; Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research; Università degli Studi di Genova - Dipartimento di Matematica

Date Written: 2002

Abstract

Directed minimum cost spanning tree problems of a special kind are studied, namely those which show up in considering the problem of connecting units (houses) in mountains with a purifier. For such problems an easy method is described to obtain a minimum cost spanning tree. The related cost sharing problem is tackled by considering the corresponding cooperative cost game with the units as players and also the related connection games, for each unit one. The cores of the connection games have a simple structure and each core element can be extended to a population monotonic allocation scheme (pmas) and also to a bi-monotonie allocation scheme. These pmas-es for the connection games result in pmas-es for the cost game.

Keywords: Minimum cost spanning tree problems, monotonic allocation scheme

JEL Classification: 91A12, 91A43

Suggested Citation

Moretti, Stefano and Norde, Henk W. and Pham Do, Kim Hang and Tijs, Stef H., Connection Problems in Mountains and Monotonic Allocation Schemes (2002). Sociedad de Estadistica e Investigacidn Operativa Top, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 83-99, 2002, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1792739

Stefano Moretti

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Henk W. Norde

Tilburg University - Center For Economic Research ( email )

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Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research ( email )

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Kim Hang Pham Do (Contact Author)

Massey University ( email )

College of Business
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New Zealand
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Stef H. Tijs

Tilburg University - Center For Economic Research ( email )

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Netherlands
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Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research ( email )

Tilburg, 5000 LE
Netherlands

Università degli Studi di Genova - Dipartimento di Matematica

Via Dodecaneso 35
16146 Genoa
Italy

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