{"title":"Responsibility and solidarity principles in sharing the costs of cleaning a polluted river","authors":"David Lowing","doi":"10.1016/j.orl.2024.107198","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To clean a polluted river, some agents must undertake operations that incur costs. The problem is to determine a fair method to share these expenses among agents. We consider the established methods of Local Responsibility Sharing and Upstream Equal Sharing, based on the responsibility principles of Absolute Territorial Sovereignty and Unlimited Territorial Integrity, respectively. We combine these with Total Solidarity, a method based on a solidarity principle. This yields new cost-sharing methods, which we characterize axiomatically.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54682,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Operations Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167637724001342","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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To clean a polluted river, some agents must undertake operations that incur costs. The problem is to determine a fair method to share these expenses among agents. We consider the established methods of Local Responsibility Sharing and Upstream Equal Sharing, based on the responsibility principles of Absolute Territorial Sovereignty and Unlimited Territorial Integrity, respectively. We combine these with Total Solidarity, a method based on a solidarity principle. This yields new cost-sharing methods, which we characterize axiomatically.
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Operations Research Letters is committed to the rapid review and fast publication of short articles on all aspects of operations research and analytics. Apart from a limitation to eight journal pages, quality, originality, relevance and clarity are the only criteria for selecting the papers to be published. ORL covers the broad field of optimization, stochastic models and game theory. Specific areas of interest include networks, routing, location, queueing, scheduling, inventory, reliability, and financial engineering. We wish to explore interfaces with other fields such as life sciences and health care, artificial intelligence and machine learning, energy distribution, and computational social sciences and humanities. Our traditional strength is in methodology, including theory, modelling, algorithms and computational studies. We also welcome novel applications and concise literature reviews.