Enabling sustainable freight forwarding network via collaborative games

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

8-2024

Abstract

Freight forwarding plays a crucial role in facilitating global trade and logistics. However, as the freight forwarding market is extremely fragmented, freight forwarders often face the issue of not being able to fill the available shipping capacity. This recurrent issue motivates the creation of various freight forwarding networks that aim at exchanging capacities and demands so that the resource utilization of individual freight forwarders can be maximized. In this paper, we focus on how to design such a collaborative network based on collaborative game theory, with the Shapley value representing a fair scheme for profit sharing. Noting that the exact computation of Shapley values is intractable for large-scale real-world scenarios, we incorporate the observation that collaboration among two forwarders is only possible if their service routes and demands overlap. This leads to a new class of collaborative games called the Locally Collaborative Games (LCGs), where agents can only collaborate with their neighbors. We propose an efficient approach to compute Shapley values for LCGs, and numerically demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art approach for a wide variety of network structures.

Keywords

Game Theory and Economic Paradigms, cooperative games, transport

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering | Transportation

Publication

Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024: Jeju, August 3-9

First Page

2976

Last Page

2983

ISBN

9781956792041

Identifier

10.24963/ijcai.2024/330

Publisher

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence

City or Country

Jeju

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/330

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