Innovative Tools for Business Coalitions in B2B Applications: How Negotiation, Auction and Game Theory Can Support Small- and Medium-sized Business in E-business

8.2…Main Scientific Contributions......Page 2
 3.5…Non-Cooperative Static Games......Page 4
 7.3…Coalition Value Added Services......Page 6
Cover......Page 1
Innovative Tools for Business Coalitionsin B2B Applications......Page 3
 Preface......Page 5
 Contents......Page 7
   5.3.1.2 Nash Equilibrium Searching Method......Page 8
 4.4…Production Planning as Tool to Support the Negotiation Process......Page 9
 1.2…Electronic Markets......Page 11
  1.2.1 Adoption and Implementation of E-Marketplaces......Page 12
  1.2.2 Electronic Commerce and E-Marketplaces......Page 13
 1.3…Negotiation in Economics......Page 14
  1.3.1 Underlying Principle for Electronic Negotiation......Page 15
  1.3.2 Electronic Negotiation Protocols......Page 16
  1.3.3 Characteristic that Differentiates Negotiations Protocols......Page 17
  1.4.1 Non-Cooperative Negotiation......Page 18
 1.6…Coalition Formation......Page 19
  1.4.3 Agreement Implementation......Page 21
  1.4.4 Cooperative Negotiation......Page 22
  1.5.1 Negotiation Models......Page 24
  1.5.4 Bidding......Page 26
  1.5.7 Multi-Lateral Negotiation......Page 27
 1.1…Introduction......Page 10
  1.5.2 Mobile Agent-Based Negotiation System......Page 25
  1.4.2 Complete Information......Page 20
 1.5…Multi-Agent System and Negotiation......Page 23
 1.6…Coalition Formation......Page 28
  1.6.1 The Aims of Cooperation from the Economic Point of View......Page 30
  1.6.2 Business Cooperation Approached from the Theory of Organization......Page 31
 1.7…Motivation......Page 33
 1.8…Book Outline......Page 35
 References......Page 36
 2.1…Introduction......Page 40
 2.2…E-Marketplace Context......Page 41
 2.3…The Agent-Based Architecture......Page 42
 2.4…The Agent-Based Architecture: Functional Context......Page 44
  2.4.1 The Customer--Supplier Structure......Page 45
  2.4.2 The Customer System......Page 46
  2.4.3 The Supplier System......Page 47
  2.4.3.1 The Supplier Negotiation System......Page 48
  2.5.1 Customer System Activities......Page 49
  2.5.3 Supplier System Activities......Page 50
  2.6.1 Negotiation Agent Activities......Page 51
  2.6.2 Production Planning Agent Activities......Page 52
  2.7.1 Supplier Negotiation Agent Activities......Page 53
 References......Page 55
 3.1…Introduction......Page 57
 3.2…Game Set-Up......Page 58
 3.3…Rational Behavior......Page 59
 3.5…Non-Cooperative Static Games......Page 60
 3.7…Multiple Equilibria......Page 62
 3.9…Simultaneous Moves: Repeated and Stochastic Games......Page 63
 3.10…Cooperative Games......Page 64
 3.11…N-Person Cooperative Games......Page 65
 3.12…Characteristic Function and Imputation......Page 66
 3.13…Shapley Value......Page 67
 3.14…The Bargaining Game Model......Page 68
  3.14.1 The Axiomatic Approach: Nash’s Solution......Page 69
 References......Page 70
 4.1…Introduction......Page 72
 4.2…Literature Review......Page 73
 4.3…Negotiation Approach......Page 77
 4.4…Production Planning as Tool to Support the Negotiation Process......Page 80
  4.4.1 The Production Planning Model......Page 82
  4.4.2 The Production Planning Algorithm......Page 84
 4.5…Discussion......Page 87
 5.1…Introduction......Page 90
 5.2…Literature Review on Coalitions......Page 92
 5.3…Coalition Approaches......Page 94
   5.3.1.1 Availability of the Players and Coalition Creation......Page 95
   5.3.1.2 Nash Equilibrium Searching Method......Page 97
   5.3.1.3 Coalition Operation Strategy......Page 99
   5.3.2.1 Coalition Formation......Page 100
   5.3.2.2 Coalition Operation Strategy......Page 101
   5.3.2.3 Coalition Profit Sharing......Page 102
 5.4…Discussion......Page 103
 References......Page 104
 6.1…Introduction......Page 106
 6.2…Agent-Based Simulation Architecture......Page 108
 6.3…The Design of Experiments......Page 111
 6.4…The Simulation Output Analysis......Page 116
 6.5…The Performance Measures......Page 118
 6.6…The Simulations as a Decision-Support System......Page 120
 References......Page 121
 7.1…Introduction......Page 123
 7.2…Overlap Effect......Page 124
 7.3…Coalition Value Added Services......Page 128
 References......Page 147
 8.1…Summary......Page 148
 8.2…Main Scientific Contributions......Page 149
 8.3…Future Development Paths......Page 150
Appendix......Page 152
Index......Page 163