At a store of chain retailers in Japan, a manager must select some new products from the list offered by the head office and, at the same time, he must determine which products should be replaced by the new products he selects. For the purpose of supporting such a decision, the authors have...

A non-cooperative iterated multiagent game, called a minority game, and its variations have been extensively studied in this decade. To increase its market similarity, a $-game was presented by observing the current and the next agent’s payoffs. However, since the $-game is defined as an...

Purpose – To make a theoretical comparison between two scale‐inspection and warranty policies for weight‐quality, one practical and the other theoretically grounded. Design/methodology/approach – Comparison is made in a Stackelberg game framework considering the consumer's as well as the...