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Impact of Utility Function to Service Center Location in Public Service System

In: Operations Research Proceedings 2012

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  • Michal Kohani

    (University of Zilina)

  • Lubos Buzna

    (University of Zilina)

  • Jaroslav Janacek

    (University of Zilina)

Abstract

Traditional approaches to the public service system design can be seen as a resource allocation problem with a central planner, where social costs are minimized. Even though all tax payers share the costs of the system construction and its operation, not all citizens have the same access to the service. There are two different ways of evaluating the resulting quality of the general system. The utilitarian approach prefers solutions which maximize the system utility. The fair approach, on the other hand, takes into account the preferences of individual users and their rights to have an equal access to the provided services. In this paper we focus on reformulation of the public service system design problem to the utility maximization problem, where both, the system and fair approaches will be studied. We evaluate the impact of the used utility functions on the location of service centres. We compare the distribution of located centres in comparison with other approaches, and we explore its impact on the price of fairness.

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  • Michal Kohani & Lubos Buzna & Jaroslav Janacek, 2014. "Impact of Utility Function to Service Center Location in Public Service System," Operations Research Proceedings, in: Stefan Helber & Michael Breitner & Daniel Rösch & Cornelia Schön & Johann-Matthias Graf von der Schu (ed.), Operations Research Proceedings 2012, edition 127, pages 129-134, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:oprchp:978-3-319-00795-3_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00795-3_19
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