This paper analyzes a single-machine scheduling problem with family setup times both from an optimization and a cost allocation perspective. In a family sequencing situation jobs are processed on a single machine, there is an initial processing order on the jobs, and every job within a family...

A highway problem is determined by a connected graph which provides all potential entry and exit vertices and all possible edges that can be constructed between vertices, a cost function on the edges of the graph and a set of players, each in need of constructing a connection between a specific...

Over the last decades, transportation has been evolving from a necessary, though low priority function to an important part of business that can enable companies to attain a competitive edge over their competitors. To cut down transportation costs, shippers often outsource their transportation...

The interaction between sequencing situations and cooperative games starting from the paper of Curiel et al. [Curiel, I., Pederzoli, G., Tijs S., 1989. Sequencing games. European Journal of Operational Research 40, 344-351], has become an established line of research within the theory of...