Cooperative networks games with elastic demands

Alain Quilliot; Fatiha Bendali; Jean Mailfert

RAIRO - Operations Research (2007)

  • Volume: 41, Issue: 4, page 345-360
  • ISSN: 0399-0559

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We present here a pricing model which is an extension of the cooperative game concept and which includes a notion of elastic demand. We present some existence results as well as an algorithm, and we conclude by discussing a specific problem related to network pricing.

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Quilliot, Alain, Bendali, Fatiha, and Mailfert, Jean. "Cooperative networks games with elastic demands." RAIRO - Operations Research 41.4 (2007): 345-360. <http://eudml.org/doc/250112>.

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