In Part I an expository overview of the basic concepts of the theory of games was presented. The different forms for representing a game were noted and the various solutions were discussed and illustrated. Here we examine the highly different approaches adopted by those who regard themselves as game theorists and by those others who utilize game theory We examine the four most important distinc...

Service Oriented Enterprises (SOEs) are subject to constant change and variation. In this paper, the changes are considered from an economic perspective based on service culture notion. Once a change is implemented, the costs of some member services may increase, whereas the costs of some other services may reduce. We construct a game theoretic model trying to capture the possible conflicting i...

Production costs in general, and workforce and inventory costs in particular, constitute a large fraction of the operating costs of many manufacturing plants. We introduce cooperative aggregate production planning as a way to decrease these costs. That is, when production planning of two or more facilities (plants) is integrated, they can interchange workforce and products inventory; thus, thei...

in this paper, we analyze the effect of lack of capital investment on energy projects using game theory in the guise of cooperative games. we focus on the energy projects in the provincial level as case study during 2010-2011. therefore, we design a theoretical model of the lack of capital investment as a factor influencing the implement of energy projects. in the experimental section, we deter...

Game theory is a set of mathematical tools that are used to represent and study social interactions. This is a very brief (and not comprehensive) introduction to some of the basic ideas of game theory. In many ways, game theory is an extension of decision theory which is the study of rational choice when we are faced with uncertainty. For this reason, some of the basic concepts from decision th...