regarding the recent development in lng production and transportation, lng exports would exhibit a pivotal role in the future of global gas trade. by analyzing the geographical pattern of the world lng trade and the structure of its transportation costs, the lng cost matrix for forum's exporters to main lng importers is presented. using this matrix, the cooperation amongst the forum's...

establishment of the gas exporting countries forum in tehran in 2001 has proved to be one of the most important changes in the gas market. gecf has a considerable share in the world liquefied natural gas (lng) trade. facts show that current routes of lng trade are not optimal. hence, in this paper we examine the development of cooperative strategies between countries exporting (lng) and members...

This article describes the basic elements of the cooperative approach to game theory, one of the two counterparts of the discipline. After the presentation of some basic definitions, the focus will be on the core and the Shapley value, two of the most central solution concepts in cooperative game theory. JEL classification: C7.

in this paper, we analyze the effect of lack of capital investment on energy projects using game theory in the guise of cooperative games. we focus on the energy projects in the provincial level as case study during 2010-2011. therefore, we design a theoretical model of the lack of capital investment as a factor influencing the implement of energy projects. in the experimental section, we deter...

0309-1708/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.02.009 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 407 823 2317; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K. Mad Lund). 1 Tel.: +1 530 752 5671; fax: +1 530 752 7872. Game theory provides a useful framework for studying Multi-Criteria Decision Making problems. This paper suggests modeling Multi-Criteria Decision Making probl...

This paper considers the advertising, pricing, and service decisions simultaneously to coordinate the supply chain with a manufacturer and a retailer. The amount of market demand is influenced by advertising, pricing and service decisions. In this paper, three well-known approaches to the game theory, including the Nash, the Stackelberg-retailer, and the cooperative game are exploited to study ...