This paper is intended to provide a detailed game-theoretical analysis of the buyer-vendor coordination problem embedded in the price-discount inventory model. Pure and mixed, cooperative and non-cooperative strategies are developed. Highlights of the paper include the full characterization of the Pareto optimal set, the determination of profit-sharing mechanisms for the cooperative case and th...

Retailers often solicit assistance from manufacturers in the form of information report about market conditions or advice about retail decisions, or even by requesting manufacturers to make decisions on their behalf. However, the manufacturer's pecuniary incentive often con icts with that of the retailer's, causing concerns about the manufacturer's trustworthiness. We investigate whether and ho...

W e consider advertising problems under an information technology (IT) capacity constraint encountered by electronic retailers in a duopolistic setting. There is a considerable amount of literature on advertising games between firms, yet introducing an IT capacity constraint fundamentally changes this problem. In the presence of information processing constraints, although advertising may still...

This paper investigates advertising level, pricing and production quantity decision problems in a supply chain when demand and production cost disruptions occur simultaneously. The supply chain consists of one manufacturer and one retailer where customer demand depends on the retail price and advertisement expenditure. The authors examine this problem in two game-theoretic models: a cooperative...

With the increase in new product introductions in consumer packaged goods categories, supermarkets are reluctant to accept new products. Therefore, it is very important for manufacturers to convince retailers of the high-demand potential of their products. We study how a high-demand manufacturer can use advertising, slotting allowances, andwholesale prices to signal its high demand to retailers...

As a kind of intelligent communication technology, the characteristic of dynamic spectrum allocation of cognitive radio provides feasible scheme for sharing with the spectrum resources among the primary user and secondary users, which solves the current spectrum resource scarcity problem. In this paper, we comprehensively explored the cognitive radio spectrum allocation models based on game the...

This paper addresses the coordination of pricing, advertising, and production-inventory decisions in a multi-product three-echelon supply chain composed multiple suppliers, single manufacturer, retailers. The demand each product is considered to be non-linearly influenced by retail price advertising expenditure. Taking into account dominant power manufacturer suppliers' oligopoly competition, t...

This article gives an introductory survey of non-cooperative game theory. Its central concepts are illustrated by means of examples, often with reference to economic and business situations in information and communication technology. Game theory provides a number of insights. Selfish behavior may lead to inferior outcomes for all players, because a more cooperative solution is not stable with ...

In response to the decision-making problem of a secondary supply chain system composed manufacturers and retailers, optimal strategy master-slave game was studied, considering carbon emissions reduction. We compared analyzed differences in strategies with without coordination mechanisms, explored impact sensitivity on strategy. Research has shown that profit retailers under mechanisms is greate...

The focus for the Centre is research into individual and strategic decision-making using a combination of theoretical and experimental methods. On the theory side, members of the Centre investigate individual choice under uncertainty, cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, as well as theories of psychology, bounded rationality and evolutionary game theory. Members of the Centre have appli...