Samenvatting

We consider an environment in which several independent service providers
can collaborate by pooling their critical, low-utilization resources that are subject to
unavailability. We examine the allocation of the joint profit for such a pooled situation
by studying an associated cooperative game. For this game, we will prove
non-emptiness of the core, present a population monotonic allocation scheme and show
convexity under some conditions. Moreover, four allocation rules will be introduced
and we will investigate whether they satisfy monotonicity to availability, monotonicity
to profit, situation symmetry and game symmetry. Finally, we will also investigate
whether the payoff vectors resulting from those allocation rules are members of the
core.