Competitive allocation of resources on a network: an agent-based model of air companies competing for the best routes
Authored by Fabrizio Lillo, Gerald Gurtner, Luca Valori
Date Published: 2015
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2015/05/p05028
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EUROCONTROL
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Abstract
We present a stylized model of the allocation of resources on a network.
By considering as a concrete example the network of sectors of the
airspace, where each node is a sector characterized by a maximal number
of simultaneously present aircraft, we consider the problem of air
companies competing for the allocation of the airspace. Each company is
characterized by a cost function, weighting differently punctuality and
length of the flight. We consider the model in the presence of pure and
mixed populations of types of airline companies and we study how the
equilibria depends on the characteristics of the network.
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Complex networks
Transportation network