Cooperative Lot Sizing Games in Supply Chains

• Main Author: Drechsel, Julia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 644
• Subjects: Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Economic theory.; Econometrics.; Economics.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Management.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

The presented work combines two areas of research: cooperative game theory and lot size optimization. One of the most essential problems in cooperations is to allocate cooperative profits or costs among the partners. The core is a well known method from cooperative game theory that describes efficie...

Table of Contents:

• Selected Topics in Cooperative Game Theory
• Algorithmic Game Theory
• Cooperation in Supply Chains
• An Economic Lot Sizing Game
• A Lot Sizing Game with Uncertain Demand
• A Capacitated Lot Sizing Game with Transshipments, Scarce Capacities, and Player-Dependent Cost Coefficients
• A Multilevel Lot Sizing Game with Restricted Cooperation
• Conclusions and Future Research.