Game theory system optimization in a supplier-customer transport network

Abstract

The development of modern IT technologies and resources, offer in many economic-industrial applications, efficient solutions for planning and managing of specific activities. New research directions in the field of management and optimization of supply-customer (SC) systems are defined and evaluated. The paper proposes a management model based on a causal graph structure, which expresses the connection and interdependence between the two entities involved in the specific activities of the field, the suppliers of goods and services and the consumers of these goods and products. Information related to production and storage capacity, up-to-date requirements for customer needs, delivery planning, production and consumption dynamics are considered. The transport between the actors involved in the system is an important component with weight in the costs of supply-sale activities. The optimal solution for the supply-customer transport system is proposed based on different strategies of game theory.