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GOEMANS, Michel X.; SKUTELLA, Martin - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2000

The location of facilities in order to provide service for customers is a well-studied problem in the operations research literature. In the basic model, there is a predefined cost for opening a facility and also for connecting a customer to a facility, the goal being to minimize the total cost....

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Financial transfers to sustain international cooperation in the climate change framework

GERMAIN, Marc; VAN YPERSELE, Jean-Pascal - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999

This paper deals with a a cooperative game theoretic analysis of the economics of international agreements on climate change. To cope with the question of the voluntary implementation of the international optimum, a financial transfer scheme is proposed under which no countries nor subgroup...

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Trust and manipulation in social networks

FORSTER, Manuel; MAULEON, Ana; VANNETELBOSCH, Vincent - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013

We investigate the role of manipulation in a model of opinion formation where agents have opinions about some common … manipulate are given by the agents’ preferences. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected … society, and thus, make the society reaching a consensus. Manipulation fosters opinion leadership, but the manipulated agent …

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