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 …

In this note we introduce and analyze maximal covering location games. As the core may be empty, several sufficient conditions for core non-emptiness are presented. For each condition we provide an example showing that when the condition is not satisfied, core non-emptiness is not guaranteed.

We study a setting with a single type of resource and with several players, each asso- ciated with a single resource (of this type). Unavailability of these resources comes unexpectedly and with player-specific costs. Players can cooperate by reallocating the available resources to the ones that need …