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Almost every supplier faces uncertain and time-varying demand. E-commerce and online shopping have given suppliers unprecedented access to data on customers' behavior, which sheds light on demand uncertainty. The main purpose of this research project is to provide an analytic tool for...
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A formal game-theoretic model of an intertwined supply network, in full and simplified versions, is proposed. Conditions for the sustainable development of an active system are presented in general form and then specified to the class of intertwined supply networks. As an illustration, a concise...
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Supply chains for goods that must be kept cool-cold chains-are of increasing importance in world trade. The goods must be kept within well-defined temperature limits to preserve their quality. One technique for reducing logistics costs is to load cold items into multiple compartment vehicles...
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attack and share information. Each hacker seeks financial gain, beneficial information exchange, and reputation gain. The two … hackers’ attacks and the firms’ defenses are inverse U-shaped in each other. A hacker shifts from attack to information … sharing when attack is costly or the firm’s defense is cheap. The two hackers share information, but a second more …
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problem as a simultaneous non-cooperative game with complete information and rational players, where there are at least two … maximization model in which users’ heterogeneity, information content, and network structure are considered. Contrary to previous … studies, in the proposed game, players find not only the most influential initial nodes but also the best information content …
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with some initial information about the parameter and, in addition, is able to receive further information from their … information structure and on the possible pieces of information that can be gathered under the network. Then, I explore how …
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"lost" to such a degree that bringing forward even more inferior information was optimal. A single individual had little … by holding back their information strongly and significantly increased. …
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are correlated. The DM seeks advice from an agent with private information about the projects' benefits. However, the … transmission of information. The agent typically recommends a project based on private information to dissuade the DM from choosing …. In contrast to the prevailing literature advocating for delegation to biased agents for enhanced information elicitation …
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This paper aims to analyze the impacts of a backup agreement contract on the performance of a small agricultural producers' citrus supply chain. A backup agreement contract, which ensures for each echelon that a quantity of products will be bought independently of real demand, is proposed to...
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the three options. Three information conditions are tested: uninformed, in which voters know only their own preference … ordering and the own benefits from each option; aggregate information, in which in addition they know the aggregate realized … distribution of the preference orderings and full information, in which they also know how the relative importance attributed to …
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