Title :
An Adaptive N-Stage Markov Chain Combined Model for Collaboration Trust Maintenance in Supply Chain
Author :
Ming Yin ; Songzheng Zhao
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Software & Microelectron., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xian
Abstract :
Collaboration trust in supply chain is one of the necessary factors to improve the whole efficiency of supply chain. This paper presents a comprehensive model for collaboration trust maintenance in supply chain, integrated adaptive N-stage Markov chain. The lifecycle of collaboration trust is divided into six stages including expedition, conformation, growing, stabilization, degeneration, and dying from a dynamic viewpoint. The transferring process of collaboration trust is interpreted with Markov chain. This paper improves the efficiency of collaboration trust maintenance by numerical example using an adaptive n-stage Markov chain. The result shows that the model combined with n-stage Markov chain for collaboration trust is superior at high effect level.
Keywords :
Markov processes; maintenance engineering; supply chain management; adaptive N-stage Markov chain combined model; collaboration trust maintenance; supply chain; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Life testing; Microelectronics; Software maintenance; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2107-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2108-4
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.1522