Ultramodular functions

Mathematics of Operations Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 311-332

  Marinacci, Massimo ^a   Montrucchio, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convex ordering; Convexity; Cooperative games; Essentially smooth functions; Supermodularity

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SCALAR CONVEXITY; STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS; ULTRAMODULAR FUNCTIONS;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 31144472805     PISSN: 0364765X     EISSN: 15265471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/moor.1040.0143     Document Type: Article

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