With the rapid development of electronic commerce, many manufacturers choose to establish dualchannel supply chains. To promote sales, the manufacturer in a dual-channel supply chain usually invests in national advertising and provides support to the retailer who promotes the goodwill through local advertisement. In our research, we use a Stackelberg differential game theoretic model to show th...

The success of Stackelberg Security Games (SSGs) in counterterrorism domains has inspired researchers’ interest in applying game-theoretic models to other security domains with frequent interactions between defenders and attackers, e.g., wildlife protection. Previous research optimizes defenders’ strategies by modeling this problem as a repeated Stackelberg game, capturing the special property ...

We consider a supply chain involving one supplier and one retailer in which a revenuesharing contract is adopted. Under this contract, the retailer can obtain the product from the supplier at a discounted price. As a compensation, the retailer must share his revenue with the supplier at a certain revenue-sharing rate, say r (0 ≤ r ≤ 1), where r represents the portion of the revenue to be kept b...

We consider autonomous racing of two cars and present an approach to formulate the decision making as a non-cooperative non-zero-sum game. The game is formulated by restricting both players to fulfill static track constraints as well as collision constraints which depend on the combined actions of the two players. At the same time the players try to maximize their own progress. In the case wher...

A non-cooperative game theoretical approach for analyzing opportunistic spectrum access in cognitive radio environments is proposed. New concepts from computational game theory are applied to spectrum access analysis in order to extract rules of behaviour for an emerging environment. In order to assess opportunistic spectrum access scenarios of cognitive radios, two oligopoly game models are re...

We consider a non-orthogonal multiple access scheme e.g. CDMA based cellular multi-channel cognitive radio network (CRN). Here multiple secondary users share a common set of channels simultaneously. For such an environment, we develop a distributed power allocation approach based on a game theoretic formulation among secondary users to satisfy their rate requirement. We model the problem using ...

Security is a concern of major importance to governments and companies throughout the world. With limited resources, complete coverage of potential points of attack is not possible. Deterministic allocation of available law enforcement agents introduces predictable vulnerabilities that can be exploited by adversaries. Strategic randomization is a game theoretic alternative that we implement in ...

One of the most complicated decision making problems for managers is the evaluation of bank performance, which involves various criteria. There are many studies about bank efficiency evaluation by network DEA in the literature review. These studies do not focus on multi-level network. Wu (Eur J Oper Res 207:856–864, 2010) proposed a bi-level structure for cost efficiency at the first time. In t...

The interaction between fiscal and monetary policy is analyzed by means of a game theoretical approach. The coordination between those two policies is essential, since decisions taken by one institution may have disastrous effects on the other one, resulting in welfare loss for the society. We derived optimal monetary and fiscal policies in context of three coordination schemes: when each insti...