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作者：Sun, Xu; Chai, Shiwei; Paul, Anand; Zhu, Lingjiong
作者单位：University of Miami; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：The rise of online marketplaces has raised customer expectations regarding customization and lead time. It poses significant challenges to manufacturing firms and prompts a move from make-to-stock to a more flexible make-to-order system. Compared to make-to-stock settings, make-to-order systems cannot smooth fluctuations in demand using available stock. While viewing dynamic pricing as a useful strategy to balance supply with demand, many manufacturing firms can also create capacity flexibilit...
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作者：Scott, Alex; Davis-Sramek, Beth; Ketchen Jr, David J.
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Auburn University System; Auburn University; Auburn University System; Auburn University
摘要：Although safety within operational systems depends on compliance with regulations, non-compliance is common in many settings. Trucking is a meaningful industry for studying operational safety compliance given that the industry is large and important, truck accidents kill thousands annually, and such accidents collectively cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars. Although the truck driving occupation is dominated by men, significant efforts are underway to recruit more women into the professi...
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作者：Rana, Shraddha; Russell, Timothy; Boutilier, Justin J.; Goentzel, Jarrod
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Fuel is an essential commodity in society with an amplified role during disasters. Disasters often cause a spike in demand for fuel and impose physical and operational constraints on fuel distribution. Accordingly, public and private sector stakeholders seek disaster preparedness and response interventions to ensure an adequate supply of fuel for emergency activities. We develop models to quantify downstream operational flow capacity, i.e., the volume of fuel that can be distributed from bulk ...
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作者：Gernert, Andreas K.; Calmon, Andre P.; Romero, Gonzalo; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Toronto; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Several low- and middle-income countries' emergency transportation systems (ETSs) do not have a centralized emergency number. Instead, they have many independent ambulance providers, each with a small number of ambulances. As a result, ETSs in these contexts lack coordination and ambulances. Using a free-entry equilibrium model, we show that in such decentralized systems, the probability that any given call can be served by at least one ambulance, that is, its coverage, is at most 71.54%, rega...
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作者：Huang, Wenpo; Jiang, Wei; Luo, Xinggang; Mei, Xiaowei; Wei, Lai
作者单位：Hangzhou Dianzi University; Hangzhou Dianzi University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Live-streaming e-commerce has gained tremendous success as a new form of business model over the past few years. Nevertheless, there has been scarce research examining the effect of exogenous stimulus-driven factors (i.e., social cues such as promotion coupons) on the profit of the live-streaming platform. We model the continuous evolvement of the aggregate viewer involvement level with geometric Brownian motion and investigate the optimal timing and depth of promotion insertion policy. Our fi...
