Cost-allocation problems for fuzzy agents in a fixed-tree network
研究了固定树网络中代理人的活动具有模糊性时的成本分配问题，将经典Bird规则扩展到代理人随时间在不同节点活动的情形，适用于维护成本分摊场景。
Abstract Cost-allocation problems in a fixed network are concerned with distributing the costs for use by a group of clients who cooperate in order to reduce such costs. We work only with tree networks and we assume that a minimum cost spanning tree network has already been constructed and now we are interested in the maintenance costs. The classic problem supposes that each agent stays for the entire time in the same node of the network. This paper introduces cost-allocation problems in a fixed-tree network with a set of agents whose activity over the nodes is fuzzy. Agent’s needs to pay for each period of time may differ. Moreover, the agents do not always remain in the same node for each period. We propose the extension of a very well-known solution for these problems: Bird’s rule.