Paper Info
Title
Co-Opetitive Contracting in Service Value Networks
Abstract
Based on the graph-based Vickrey auction in service value networks introduced by Blau et al. [1], we analyze strategic behavior of service providers in networked formations regarding their opportunities to foster bilateral cooperative agreements. Introducing enforceable ex-ante agreements between adjacent service providers in a Service Value Network (SVNs), we investigate beneficial investment strategies that aim at reducing communication cost between sequentially composed services. The contribution at hand is twofold: Based on the foundation of SVNs and the efficient allocation of services through a graph-based Vickrey auction as presented in Blau et al. [1], [2] we (i) develop a model of cooperation and show analytically that, in the overall non-cooperative setting at hand, our model of cooperation implements a mutual weakly dominant strategy for adjacent service providers to reduce the cost of communication by customizing their service offerings. Transferring our results into practice, we (ii) demonstrate the valuable properties of our model of cooperation by providing a comprehensive application scenario.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CEC.2011.29
CEC
Keywords
Field
DocType
communication cost,beneficial investment strategy,graph-based vickrey auction,service value network,adjacent service provider,ex-ante agreements,contract,comprehensive application scenario,efficient allocation,service value networks,provider strategy,beneficial investment strategies,service offering,strategic service provider behavior,service provider,bilateral cooperative agreements,co-opetitive contracting,investment,graph theory,vickrey auction,bilateral cooperative agreement
Mathematical optimization,Vickrey auction,Computer science,Investment strategy,Operations research,Service provider,Generalized second-price auction,Strategic dominance,Auction theory,Value network,Service delivery framework
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2330-9903
978-0-7695-4535-6
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Blau125717.01
Tobias Conte27910.26