Cooperative advertising is an agreement between a manufacturer and a retailer to share advertising cost at the local level. Previous studies have not investigated cooperative advertising for complementary products and their main focus was only on one good. In this paper, we study a two-echelon supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer with two complementary goods. The demand ...

In some situations, sellers of certain commodities usually provide price discounts for large orders according to a decreasing unit function. Buyers such can cooperate and form purchasing groups benefit from these discounts. A natural way allocate the corresponding cost reductions is equal rule. We analyze this situation as cooperative game. show that when function linear, rule coincides with Sh...

objective: to classify different types of acute leukemia based on cooperative game theory and shapley value. materials and methods: in this study, patients data were collected from flow cytometry tests of the iran blood transfusion organization (ibto) have been used. 304 different diagnosed samples in 8 classes of acute leukemia were investigated. samples were initially in numerical format. i...

In this paper, a novel methodology is proposed to solve a cooperative multi-depot vehicle routing problem. We establish a mathematical model for multi-owner VRP in which each owner (i.e. player) manages single or multiple depots. The basic idea consists of offering an option that owners cooperatively manage the VRP to save their costs. We present cooperative game theory techniques for cost savi...

One of the predictions of game theory is that cooperative behaviours are vulnerable to exploitation by selfish individuals, but this result seemingly contradicts the survival of cooperation observed in nature. In this review, we will introduce game theoretical concepts that lead to this conclusion and show how the spatial competition dynamics between microorganisms can be used to model the surv...

In this issue, Bergmüller et al. (2007) have provided a valuable review paper, re-establishing cooperative breeding within a theoretical framework in field studies of cooperative breeding vertebrates. I am in agreement with the authors in their outlook and suggestions. In this critical review, I wish to (1) review the costs and benefits approach previously taken in the field, (2) evaluate commu...

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are systems to protect the network resources against the attacks. Considering the extent of the attacks in the internet environment and the change in the form and type of the attacks from the centralized to the distributed strategy, such systems also tend to move towards the distributed architecture. In this paper, a mobile agent based method working as suspici...