Process improvement plays a significant role in reducing production costs over the life cycle of a product. We consider the role of process improvement in a decentralized assembly system in which a buyer purchases components from several first-tier suppliers. These components are assembled into a finished product, which is sold to the downstream market. The assembler faces a deterministic deman...

A partially defined cooperative game is a coalition function form game in which some of the coalitional worths are not known. An application would be cost allocation of a joint project among so many players that the determination of all coalitional worths is prohibitive. This paper generalizes the concept of the Shapley value for cooperative games to the class of partially defined cooperative g...

Cooperative boolean games are coalitional games with both goals and costs associated to actions, and dependence networks for boolean games are a kind of social networks representing how the actions of other agents have an influence on the achievement of an agent’s goal. In this paper, we introduce two new types of dependence networks, called the abstract dependence network and the refined depen...

To address the negative impact of large-scale disorderly grid connection EVs on stable operation power grid, a cooperative game control strategy for based tariff leverage is proposed, taking grid-side and user-side economy as objective function, into account EV load state constraint, distribution bi-directional charging discharging pile dynamic members’ revenue constraint. A model piles establi...

The epistemic program can be viewed as a methodical construction of game theory from its most basic elements—rationality and irrationality, belief and knowledge about such matters, beliefs about beliefs, knowledge about knowledge, and so on. To date, the epistemic field has been mainly focused on game matrices and trees—i.e., on the non-cooperative branch of game theory. It has been used to pro...

Flow theory offers an individualistic explanation of media enjoyment, while cooperative learning theory posits a social explanation for enhanced learning in groups. This classroom-based experimental study examines whether game players can experience both conditions and the influence of each on several types of civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions. We find that high quality cooperative lear...

We propose a linguistic prediction game with competitive and cooperative variants, and a model of game players based on finite state automata. We present a complexity metric for these automata, and study the coevolutionary dynamics of complexity growth in a variety of multi-species simulations. We present quantitative results using this complexity metric and analyze the causes of varying rates ...

Due to the expansion of container port facilities and many market suppliers, competition among container terminals (CTs) is at the level of threatening the management income and expenditure of port management companies. This paper develops a noncooperative game model and a cooperative game model which involve four CTs located in North Port and two terminals in New port of Busan, Republic of Kor...

A partially de ned cooperative game is a coalition function form game in which some of the coalitional worths are not known. An application would be cost allocation of a joint project among so many players that the determination of all coalitional worths is prohibitive. This paper generalizes the concept of the Shapley value for cooperative games to the class of partially de ned cooperative gam...