We study the coordination of actions and the allocation of profit in supply chains under decentralized control in which a single supplier supplies several retailers with goods for replenishment of stocks. The goal of the supplier and the retailers is to maximize their individual profits. Since the outcome under decentralized control is inefficient, cooperation among firms by means of coordinati...

Recent advances in cooperative driving hold the potential to significantly improve safety, comfort and efficiency on our roads. An application of particular interest is platooning of trucks, where it has been shown that keeping a minimum intervehicle distance results in considerably reduced fuel consumptions. This, however, puts high requirements on timeliness and reliability of the underlying ...

Corresponding Author: Hafez, Ahmed, Taimour, PhD Head of Aircraft Armament Department, Tel : +201005115209 Email: [email protected] Abstract Teams of cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) require intelligent and flexible control strategies to allow the accomplishment of a multitude of challenging group tasks. In this paper, we introduce a solution for the problem of tactic switching be...

This paper develops a decentralized leader-follower game for network design of a competitive supply chain problem in which a new chain as the leader enters a market with one existing supply chain as a follower. Both chains produce an identical product, customer demand is inelastic and customer utility function is based on Huff gravity-based model. The leader wants to shape his network and set a...

This work considers cooperative advertising in a manufacturer–retailer supply chain. While the manufacturer is the Stackelberg leader, the retailer is the follower. Using Sethi model it models the dynamic effect of the manufacturer and retailer’s advertising efforts on sale. It uses optimal control technique and stochastic differential game theory to obtain the players’ advertising strategies a...

Decentralized Receding Horizon Control of Cooperative Vehicles with Communication Delays Hojjat A. Izadi, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2009 This thesis investigates the decentralized receding horizon control (DRHC) for a network of cooperative vehicles where each vehicle in the group plans its future trajectory over a finite prediction horizon time. The vehicles exchange their predicted paths wi...

Decentralized control of cooperative systems captures the operation of a group of decision-makers that share a single global objective. The difficulty in solving optimally such problems arises when the agents lack full observability of the global state of the system when they operate. The general problem has been shown to be NEXP-complete. In this paper, we identify classes of decentralized con...