Unitary Owen points in cooperative lot-sizing models with backlogging

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Main Authors: Guardiola, Luis A., Meca, Ana, Puerto, Justo
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author Guardiola, Luis A.
Meca, Ana
Puerto, Justo
author_facet Guardiola, Luis A.
Meca, Ana
Puerto, Justo
contents Cooperative lot-sizing models with backlogging and heterogeneous costs are studied in Guardiola et al. (2020). In this model several firms participate in a consortium aiming at satisfying their demand over the planing horizon with minimal operation cost. Each firm uses the best ordering channel and holding technology provided by the participants in the consortium. The authors show that there are always fair allocations of the overall operation cost among the firms so that no group of agents profit from leaving the consortium. This paper revisits those cooperative lot-sizing models and presents a new family of cost allocations, the unitary Owen points. This family is an extension of the Owen set which enjoys very good properties in production-inventory proble, introduced by Guardiola et al. (2008). Necessary and sufficient conditions are provided for the unitary Owen points to be fair allocations. In addition, we provide empirical evidence, throughout simulation, showing that the above condition is fulfilled in most cases. Additionally, a relationship between lot-sizing games and a certain family of production-inventory games, through Owen's points of the latter, is described. This interesting relationship enables to easily construct a variety of fair allocations for cooperative lot-sizing models.
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spellingShingle Unitary Owen points in cooperative lot-sizing models with backlogging
Guardiola, Luis A.
Meca, Ana
Puerto, Justo
Computer Science and Game Theory
Cooperative lot-sizing models with backlogging and heterogeneous costs are studied in Guardiola et al. (2020). In this model several firms participate in a consortium aiming at satisfying their demand over the planing horizon with minimal operation cost. Each firm uses the best ordering channel and holding technology provided by the participants in the consortium. The authors show that there are always fair allocations of the overall operation cost among the firms so that no group of agents profit from leaving the consortium. This paper revisits those cooperative lot-sizing models and presents a new family of cost allocations, the unitary Owen points. This family is an extension of the Owen set which enjoys very good properties in production-inventory proble, introduced by Guardiola et al. (2008). Necessary and sufficient conditions are provided for the unitary Owen points to be fair allocations. In addition, we provide empirical evidence, throughout simulation, showing that the above condition is fulfilled in most cases. Additionally, a relationship between lot-sizing games and a certain family of production-inventory games, through Owen's points of the latter, is described. This interesting relationship enables to easily construct a variety of fair allocations for cooperative lot-sizing models.
title Unitary Owen points in cooperative lot-sizing models with backlogging
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01901