This paper discusses how a manufacturer and its retailers interact with each other to optimize their product marketing strategies, platform product configuration and inventory policies in a VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) supply chain. The manufacturer procures raw materials from multiple...

This paper focuses on the problem of monotone decision trees from the point of view of the multicriteria decision aid methodology (MCDA). By taking into account the preferences of the decision maker, an attempt is made to bring closer similar research within machine learning and MCDA. The paper...

In this paper we review known minimax results with applications ingame theory and show that these results are easy consequences of thefirst minimax result for a two person zero sum game with finite strategysets published by von Neumann in 1928: Among these results are thewell known minimax...

In this paper the well-known minimax theorems of Wald, Ville and Von Neumann are generalized under weaker topological conditions on the payoff function f and/or extended to the larger set of the Borel probability measures instead of the set of mixed strategies

In this note we review some known minimax theorems with applications in game theory and show that these results form an equivalent chain which includes the strong separation result in finite dimensional spaces between two disjoint closed convex sets of which one is compact. By simplifying the...

In this paper we introduce a new class of OR games: economic lot-sizing (ELS) games. There are a number of retailers that have a known demand for a fixed number of periods. To satisfy demand the retailers order products at the same manufacturer. By placing joint orders instead of individual...

In the first chapter of this book the basic results within convex and quasiconvex analysis are presented. In Section 2 we consider in detail the algebraic and topological properties of convex sets within Rn together with their primal and dual representations. In Section 3 we apply the results...

Cooperative advertising is an important mechanism used by manufacturers to influence retailers' promotional decisions. In a typical arrangement, the manufacturer agrees to reimburse a fraction of a retailer's advertising cost, known as the subsidy rate. We consider a case of new product adoption...

The concept of a forecast horizon for a given player with respect to the set of equilibria in an abstract dynamic game is defined. Consideration is then given to the case of a stochastic dynamic game with memory-less perfect state information and the Nash equilibrium concept. Sufficient...

We study a two-period supply chain in which a manufacturer produces a product, learns to reduce cost, and sells it through a retailer with a price-dependent demand. The manufacturer's second-period production cost declines linearly in the first-period production with a random learning rate. The...