This paper surveys the research area of cooperative games associated with several types of
operations research problems in which various decision makers (players) are involved …

We study a situation with n retailers, each of them facing a news-vendor problem, ie, selling
to customers over a finite period of time (product with a short life cycle, such as fashion) …

Cooperative game theory defines several concepts for distributing outcome shares in a
cooperative game with transferable utilities. One of the most famous solution concepts is the …

In this paper, we present a unified approach to study a class of cooperative games arising
from inventory centralization. The optimization problems corresponding to the inventory …

Companies that maintain capital goods (eg, airplanes or power plants) often face high costs,
both for holding spare parts and due to downtime of their technical systems. These costs can …

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 …

This study considers a supply chain that consists of n retailers, each facing a newsvendor
problem, and m warehouses. The retailers are supplied with a single product via some …

Inventory cost games are introduced in Meca et al.(1999). These games arise when
considering the possibility of joint ordering in n-person EOQ inventory situations. Moreover …

In this paper we introduce a new class of cooperative games that arise from production-
inventory problems. Several agents have to cover their demand over a finite time horizon …

Consider a distribution system consisting of a set of retailers facing a single-period price-
dependent demand of a single product. By taking advantage of the risk-pooling effect and …