Author, as appears in the article.: Giménez-Gómez JM; Peris JE; Subiza B
Department: Economia
URV's Author/s: Giménez Gómez, José Manuel
Abstract: A minimum cost spanning tree problem analyzes the way to efficiently connect individuals to a source. Hence the question is how to fairly allocate the total cost among these agents. Our approach, reinterpreting the spanning tree cost allocation as a claims problem defines a simple way to allocate the optimal cost with two main criteria: (1) each individual only pays attention to a few connection costs (the total cost of the optimal network and the cost of connecting himself to the source); and (2) an egalitarian criteria is used to share costs. Then, using claims rules, we define an egalitarian solution so that the total cost is allocated as equally as possible. We show that this solutions could propose allocations outside the core, a counter-intuitive fact whenever cooperation is necessary. Then we propose a modification to get a core selection, obtaining in this case an alternative interpretation of the Folk solution.
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licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: josemanuel.gimenez@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-0202-4623
Record's date: 2023-02-19
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/metrics?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236058#savedHeader
Papper original source: Plos One. 15 (7): e0236058-
APA: Giménez-Gómez JM; Peris JE; Subiza B (2020). An egalitarian approach for sharing the cost of a spanning tree. Plos One, 15(7), e0236058-. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236058
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236058
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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