“…Initially, cooperative game theory methods have been proposed in the electricity markets as tools to provide robust solutions for the allocation of the transmission system's fixed costs (Tsukamoto and Iyoda, 1996;Stamtsis and Erlich, 2004). Since then, such methods have also been proposed for, inter alias, allocation of unit's start-up costs and inter TSOs compensation (Hu et al, 2006;Dietrich, Olmos and Perez-Arriaga, 2008).…”