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Game theory is the study of competition and cooperation among rational, strategic, and self-interested agents. One of the application areas of game theory in recent years is operations management, which is the study of matching supply with demand under variability and uncertainty. Operations management is a core functional area in any organization in the manufacturing and service sectors. With advances in technology, operations management settings are increasingly becoming multi-agent, and game theory provides the right framework to study operations management in multi-agent settings. This is evident from the burgeoning literature employing game theory in operations management. Though there are excellent books on game theory, to the best of my knowledge, there is no book that connects game theory and operations management, and this is the first endeavor to provide an integrated study of game theory and operations management.

The objectives of this book are to provide an introduction to game theory and related solution concepts and to explicate these concepts with contemporary research problems in operations and supply chain management. The book has a modular struc-ture. Chapters 1 and 2 provide an introduction to operations management and game theory, respectively. Traditionally, game theory is divided into strands—noncoop-erative games and cooperative games. Noncooperative games are represented as normal-form and extensive-form games, while cooperative games are commonly represented as characteristic-form games. Games in normal form and extensive form, along with the important solution concepts, are discussed in Chaps. 3 and 5, respec-tively. Games in characteristic form and related solution concepts are discussed in Chap. 7. Mechanism design and auctions are the high points among applications of game theory. Mechanism design deals with designing games by defining the rules, the action sets for the agents, and the appropriate equilibrium concept such that the designer’s desired outcomes are the subset of the equilibrium outcomes of the game. Auctions are in the class of mechanism design problems. Chapter 9 provides a detailed discussion of the theory of mechanism design and auctions. Chapters 3, 5, 7, and 9 are complemented by Chaps. 4, 6, 8, and 10 on related applications in opera-tions management, respectively. These chapters will assist a reader in understanding the game-theoretic skeletons that are the basis of complex operations management models. The applications discussed in these chapters are based on seminal papers and highlight contemporary issues in operations and supply chain management. The applications include niche topics like explainable AI, blockchains, sustainability, physical internet, and community sensing. Each chapter has a problem set to check the understanding of the concepts.