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CIAC
2010
Springer
275views Algorithms» more  CIAC 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Online Cooperative Cost Sharing
The problem of sharing the cost of a common infrastructure among a set of strategic and cooperating players has been the subject of intensive research in recent years. However, mos...
Janina Brenner and Guido Schaefer
APPROX
2007
Springer
112views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Encouraging Cooperation in Sharing Supermodular Costs
Abstract Consider a situation where a group of agents wishes to share the costs of their joint actions, and needs to determine how to distribute the costs amongst themselves in a f...
Andreas S. Schulz, Nelson A. Uhan
MST
2010
196views more  MST 2010»
12 years 11 months ago
Non-Cooperative Cost Sharing Games via Subsidies
We consider a cost sharing system where users are selfish and act according to their own interest. There is a set of facilities and each facility provides services to a subset of ...
Niv Buchbinder, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Joseph Naor, Ar...
MP
2010
116views more  MP 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
New techniques for cost sharing in combinatorial optimization games
Combinatorial optimization games form an important subclass of cooperative games. In recent years, increased attention has been given to the issue of finding good cost shares for...
Alberto Caprara, Adam N. Letchford
ACMICEC
2003
ACM
158views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Mechanisms for coalition formation and cost sharing in an electronic marketplace
In this paper we study the mechanism design problem of coalition formation and cost sharing in an electronic marketplace, where buyers can form coalitions to take advantage of dis...
Cuihong Li, Uday Rajan, Shuchi Chawla, Katia Sycar...