Coalition formation in a virtual buying cooperative: a case for formal grammars

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dc.contributor.authorRaborife, Mpho Ivy
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-19T12:18:38Z
dc.date.available2016-09-19T12:18:38Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionA thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, March 2016.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractWe report on a study that investigates the applicability of formal grammars in modelling coalition formation. This particular coalition formation is amongst a group of physically distributed enterprises intending to purchase items from a supplier as a single entity, termed a virtual buying cooperative (VBC). We investigate several grammars with regard to their appropriateness in modelling the interaction strategy amongst the enterprises during the formation of a VBC. A regular grammar, context-free grammars, a random permitting context grammar, random forbidding context grammars, and random context grammars are used to model the formation of a VBC in this study. The adequacy and limitations in modelling the formation of a VBC by these grammars is explored. The results demonstrate that random context grammars are adequate in modelling a VBC environment. In addition to generating the specified languages representing a formed coalition, the production rules of all the three random context grammars investigated in this study, at every derivation step, adhere to the interaction strategy of a VBC during its formation. The strategy excludes enterprises that have not been invited to join the coalition from participating in the coalition. Furthermore, if an enterprise has been invited to join the coalition by multiple enterprises, it can only accept one invitation. This study aims to bridge the gap between formal grammars and technological applications.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianM T 2016en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (150 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationRaborife, Mpho Ivy (2016) Coalition formation in a virtual buying cooperative: a case for formal grammars, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/21067>
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/21067
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshCoalitions
dc.subject.lcshBusiness enterprises
dc.subject.lcshBusiness networks
dc.titleCoalition formation in a virtual buying cooperative: a case for formal grammarsen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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