This paper surveys some applications of cooperative game theory to supply chain
management. Special emphasis is placed on two important aspects of cooperative games …

Resource sharing exists not only among multiple entities but also among various stages of a
single network structure system. Previous studies focused on how to allocate total given …

Maximizing the benefits of cascade hydropower stations will inevitably reduce the benefits of
some upstream hydropower stations. In order to promote the joint operation and mutual …

The design of a supply chain network can be interpreted as a coalition formation problem in
a cooperative game theory and formulated as a linear production game (LPG). The …

This paper investigates the coordination mechanism for supply chain with one manufacturer
and multiple competing suppliers in the electronic market. We first study two conventional …

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 …

This Briefs Series book illustrates in depth a concept of healthcare management
engineering and its domain for hospital and clinic operations. Predictive and analytic …

This paper concerns the possible equivalence of the Shapley value and other allocations in
specific games. For a group buying game with a linear quantity discount schedule, the …

Several researches have been done to optimize different flows in blood supply chain.
However, the use of game theory in this sense is rare. The following work focus on the case …

This paper defines cooperation as the process of coordinating the objectives and activities of
supply chain (SC) members. It also focuses on cooperation as a solution for hybrid …