@article { author = {Taleizadeh, Ata Allah and Halat, Kourosh}, title = {Inventory Control Games with Prepayments}, journal = {Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering}, volume = {11}, number = {Special issue on game theory applications' in industrial engineering}, pages = {127-143}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Iranian Institute of Industrial Engineering}, issn = {1735-8272}, eissn = {2717-3380}, doi = {}, abstract = {The cost game arises when a group of retailers who observe demand for a common good decide to cooperate and make join orders following the EOQ policy. In this paper we present a new class of inventory games that is strategically equivalent to that class of inventory cost games: inventory games with advance payments. This model extends the traditional inventory model to the situation where advance payments of retailers are required. We propose a core distribution, which is based on a proportional allocation, as well as a population monotonic allocation scheme, for inventory games with advance payments. Then, we examine the stability of grand coalition from both a myopic and farsighted perspective, and conclude that it is always stable from both points of view. To complete our study, we develop a sensitivity analysis for the model and evaluate the changes produced on the proposed core distribution.}, keywords = {Inventory games,advance payments,cooperative cost games,core distribution}, url = {https://www.jise.ir/article_75682.html}, eprint = {https://www.jise.ir/article_75682_d17c186ec9780c2e26a09b6f16c53d02.pdf} }