Evolutionary Game Analysis of Co-opetition Relationship between Regional Logistics Nodes

 

D.Z. Wang¹, M.X. Lang*² and Y. Sun³

 

^1,2,3 Department of Logistics Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing, China. *langmaoxiang2013@sohu.com

 

ABSTRACT

The evolutionary game of co-opetition relationship between regional logistics nodes is studied in this paper. A replicator dynamic model is built to obtain the Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS) of the game. Then, according to the status and level of logistics nodes, the symmetric and asymmetric game models based on evolutionary game theory are proposed, respectively. The former is used to analyze the changing trends of co-opetition relationship between logistics nodes from a same layer of a logistics network. While the latter can be used to deal with the relationship forecasting problems between logistics nodes from different layers. The result of the case study reveals that the proposed models have good practicability and accuracy in dealing with the relationship forecasting problems within a regional logistics network.

Keywords: Regional logistics network, logistics node, co-opetition relationship, evolutionary game theory.

 

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Acknowledgements

This project supporting by the Science and Technology Development Plan of Ministry of Railways, P.R.C. (Grant no. 2012X012-A). The authors would also thank Dr. W. Wang at Department of Systems Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, for his constructive suggestions and comments.

 

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