In this paper, a salary-plus-bonus incentive mechanism is proposed to motivate WiFi Access Points (APs) to provide data offloading service for mobile network operators (MNOs). Under the proposed salary-plus-bonus scheme, WiFi APs are rewarded not only based on offloaded data volume but also based on the quality of their offloading service. The interactions between WiFi APs and the MNO under thi...

This paper evaluates the impact of price discount contracts and pricing schemes on the dual-channel supply chain competition. Channel conflict occurs when the supplier enters the online direct channel. Traditional contracts normally require tedious administrational participation, full information of the cost structures, and other factors. The introduction of simple price discount contracts aims...

The emission control technologies decisions of port and shipping enterprises under subsidy customers’ low-carbon preferences are discussed from a supply chain perspective. game models established three (port-leader Stackelberg game, ship-leader Nash game). obtained results show that the impact preference on demand in its pricing always is considered by leader chain. profits emissions higher tha...

Cooperative advertising is a cost-sharing mechanism in which a part of retailers' advertising investments are financed by the manufacturers. In recent years, investment among advertising options has become a difficult marketing issue. In this paper, the cooperative advertising problem with advertising options is investigated in a two-period horizon in which the market share in the second period...

Numerous applications in 3D underwater sensor networks (UWSNs), such as pollution detection, disaster prevention, animal monitoring, navigation assistance, and submarines tracking, heavily rely on accurate localization techniques. However, due to the limited batteries of nodes difficulty for energy harvesting UWSNs, it is challenging localize successfully within a short node lifetime an unspeci...

In many scenarios network design is not enforced by a central authority, but arises from the interactions of several self-interested agents. This is the case of the Internet, where connectivity is due to Autonomous Systems’ choices, but also of overlay networks, where each user client can decide the set of connections to establish. Recent works have used game theory, and in particular the conce...

In this paper, we employ a hypergame framework to analyze the single-leader-multiple-followers (SLMF) Stackelberg security game with two typical misinformed situations: misperception and deception. We provide stability criterion help of hyper Nash equilibrium (HNE) investigate both strategic cognitive equilibria in SLMF games misinformation. fact, find mild stable conditions such that deception...

Abstract We study a Stackelberg game with multiple leaders and continuum of followers that are coupled via congestion effects. The followers’ problem constitutes nonatomic game, where population infinitesimal players is given each player chooses resource. Each resource has linear cost function which depends on the this control determine price per unit as well service capacity for influencing sl...