Author(s)

Irinel Dragan

University of Texas at Arlington, Mathematics, Arlington, USA.

Efficient values from Game Theory are used, in order to find out a fair allocation for a scheduling game associated with the problem of scheduling jobs with a common due date. A four person game illustrates the basic ideas and the computational difficulties.

Schedule; Efficient Value; Egalitarian Value; Egalitarian Nonseparable Contribution; Shapley Value; Cost Excesses; Lexicographic Ordering; Cost Least Square Prenucleolus

I. Dragan, "Scheduling Jobs with a Common Due Date via Cooperative Game Theory," American Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 3 No. 5, 2013, pp. 439-443. doi: 10.4236/ajor.2013.35042.