Consensus in noncooperative dynamic games: A multiretailer inventory application

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 998-1003

  Bauso, Dario ^a   Giarre L ^a   Pesenti, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consensus protocols; Dynamic programming; Game theory; Inventory

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE;

MULTIRETAILER INVENTORY SYSTEM; NASH EQUILIBRIA;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 44849095744     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2008.919546     Document Type: Article

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