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Game theory in supply chain analysis. (English) Zbl 1138.91365

Simchi-Levi, David (ed.) et al., Handbook of quantitative supply chain analysis. Modeling in the e-business era. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers (ISBN 1-4020-7952-4/hbk). International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 74, 13-65 (2004).
Summary: Game theory has become an essential tool in the analysis of supply chains with multiple agents, often with conflicting objectives. This chapter surveys the applications of game theory to supply chain analysis and outlines game-theoretic concepts that have potential for future application. We discuss both non-cooperative and cooperative game theory in static and dynamic settings. Careful attention is given to techniques for demonstrating the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium in non-cooperative games. A newsvendor game is employed throughout to demonstrate the application of various tools.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1050.90004].

MSC:

91A80 Applications of game theory
90B05 Inventory, storage, reservoirs
91A10 Noncooperative games
91A12 Cooperative games
91A15 Stochastic games, stochastic differential games
91A20 Multistage and repeated games
91A23 Differential games (aspects of game theory)