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Mechanism design for incentivizing strategic agents to maximize their sum of utilities (SoU) is a well-studied problem in the context of resource allocation in networks. There are, however, a number of network resource allocation problems of interest where a designer may have a different objective than maximization of the SoU. The obvious reason for seeking a different objective is that this notion...
The orchestrator is a management literature metaphor to describe the role of a player who organizes and manages a set of activities in a network, by ensuring value creation opportunities in the system and value appropriation mechanisms for each player. In this paper, we consider orchestrators who do not own capacities but have access to a large pool of globally dispersed service providers in the various...
In order to examine the relationship between an original shareholder and a possible investor in the enterprises financing, two game theoretic models are used in this paper. Theories and methods of optimization are introduced to analyze the models. The results show that either the original shareholder's shares percentage or the possible investor's investment has a reasonable upper bound, an enterprise...
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