Demand and capacity sharing decisions and protocols in a collaborative network英语教案.pdf

Decision Support Systems 49 (2010) 442–450 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Decision Support Systems journal homepage: /locate/dss Demand and capacity sharing decisions and protocols in a collaborative network of enterprises Sang Won Yoon a,⁎, Shimon Y. Nof b a Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, 13902-6000, USA b School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This research is motivated by the arbitrary nature of customer orders and dynamic changes of demand patterns Received 14 October 2008 and the ability to overcome such uncertainty by enterprise collaboration. Such collaboration is an attractive Received in revised form 3 April 2010 strategy, and a set of enterprises can form a beneficial collaborative network. In a collaborative network of Accepted 4 May 2010 enterprises (CN), each enterprise is a self-operative organization, and enterprise collaboration needs to be Available online 24 May 2010 carefully controlled to achieve mutual benefits. In this research, therefore, demand and capacity sharing protocols have been designed to find efficient demand and capacity sharing decisions in the CN. New protocol Keywords: models are developed and numerical examples indicate that enterpris