Dear Colleagues,

In a dictionary “logistic” is defined as the “management of inventories and groups of people in motion and at a rest”. Adding “games” as a suffix to “logistics” frames questions of how can the participants (people, inventories, warehouses, vehicles, etc.) fairly account for their logistic outcomes. This Special Issue is about cooperative games and competitive games instantiated in real life and addresses questions, such as what should be the cost to a household when dividing the cost of a postmanʹs delivery route between the route’s beneficiaries? Would a remote gas station be allocated a higher cost for its gasoline replenishment than a gas station in a close central location? What is a fair taxation on a congested toll road? The lower the toll the higher the traffic congestion and it takes longer to reach the destination. What are the roles of the players in these games?
In the last 25 years we have witnessed a significant academic awakening to issues of fair allocation of resources in public and private domains. The academic domain of this Special Issue is that of applied combinatorial optimization with familiar problems with easy descriptions and a definite game flavor in the challenging search for new solutions. In this Special Issue we intend to take stock of what has been achieved thus far and what questions remain unanswered.

• cooperative games

• cost allocation

• selection of Itineraries

• shortest route

• marginal values

• Fair tools