A theoretical perspective of negotiation support systems
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Collaboration technology, modeling, and end-user computing for the 1990s
Coalition structure generation with worst case guarantees
Artificial Intelligence
Bargaining for cooperative economic ordering
Decision Support Systems
A comparative axiomatic characterization of the Banzhaf-Owen coalitional value
Decision Support Systems
Stable Farsighted Coalitions in Competitive Markets
Management Science
An algorithm for distributing coalitional value calculations among cooperating agents
Artificial Intelligence
Cooperation and profit allocation in distribution chains
Decision Support Systems
A Bargaining Framework in Supply Chains: The Assembly Problem
Management Science
Coalition structure generation: dynamic programming meets anytime optimization
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
An anytime algorithm for optimal coalition structure generation
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Near-optimal anytime coalition structure generation
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation
Artificial Intelligence
On the core of the multicommodity flow game
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: The fourth ACM conference on electronic commerce
Combinatorial Coalition Formation for multi-item group-buying with heterogeneous customers
Decision Support Systems
A new power index based on minimal winning coalitions without any surplus
Decision Support Systems
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Centralizing Inventory in Supply Chains by Using Shapley Value to Allocate the Profits
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
An approach for multi-objective categorization based on the game theory and Markov process
Applied Soft Computing
Sequentially optimal repeated coalition formation under uncertainty
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Decision support for online group negotiation: Design, implementation, and efficacy
Decision Support Systems
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With competition intensifying in the globalized economy, an increasing number of firms are forming coalitions or alliances to improve purchasing efficiency and reduce operating costs in various industries. Forming such coalitions or alliances has become a key research challenge in two important kinds of decision support systems, namely group support systems and negotiation support systems, since the number of possible coalitions is very large in most cases. Most of the existing research on coalition formation focuses on generation of optimal structures alone. Nevertheless, self-interested agents, who are mainly concerned with their own benefits, usually determine whether to join a coalition on the basis of payoffs they can possibly get from the coalition. Accordingly, in this paper, we propose a novel method of coalition formation to enable agents to improve their own benefits based on marginal contributions and the Markov process. Our method considers both coalition structure generation and payoff division which are two primary concerns of group and negotiation support systems. By using a real-world scenario, we give an example of formation of retailer coalitions to illustrate the proposed method. Finally, it is experimentally showed that the method proposed in this paper is effective and efficient, compared with other existing methods. The coalitions generated by our algorithms can significantly increase most agents' payoffs. The managerial implication of our research is that firms can apply the proposed method to identify the most beneficial coalition network with their business partners.