This paper addresses the issue of understanding the strategic sourcing decision making process in a supply chain environment. A case study of an automotive company was used to analyse the decision making process under different sourcing scenarios. A strategic sourcing assessment was conducted to analyse the consequences of different strategies when sourcing an activity or a product. The assessm...

Many real-world games contain parameters which can affect payoffs, action spaces, and information states. For fixed values of the parameters, game be solved using standard algorithms. However, in many settings agents must act without knowing that will encountered advance. Often decisions made by a human under time resource constraints, it is unrealistic to assume solve real time. We present new...