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作者：Anderson, Edward G. G.; Keith, David R. R.; Lopez, Jose
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Operations management (OM) in the public policy context is extremely complex with many mutually interacting factors characterized by feedback loops, delays and nonlinearities, as well as multiple stakeholders pursuing divergent objectives. Prior researchers have called for a systems approach in these contexts, arguing that standard OM methodologies such as mathematical programming, and queuing theory often cannot fully address these problems. Researchers have employed one such systems approach...
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作者：Gao, Yuetao; Johnson, Norman; Shen, Bo; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky)
作者单位：Xiamen University; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Wuhan University; Wuhan University; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：A downstream manufacturer can procure high-quality inputs from its upstream raw material supplier to produce finished products with high quality. The manufacturer may also have the option to source alternative cheaper low-quality inputs to partially replace the inputs from its supplier to produce finished products of lower quality. That is, the manufacturer can use a mixture of the supplier's inputs and alternative ones in product design such that product quality depends on the proportion of e...
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作者：Bolton, Gary E. E.; Bonzelet, Sabrina; Stangl, Tobias; Thonemann, Ulrich W. W.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Cologne
摘要：This study examines human ordering behavior in service-level inventory contracts, a class of contracts important in practice. Studies of wholesale price contracts find that people tend to place orders that are suboptimal and biased toward mean demand. Unlike wholesale price contracts, service-level contracts can be parameterized such that they have steep expected profit functions, making the expected profit-maximizing order more salient, in the sense that deviations from optimal ordering are m...
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作者：Loots, Thomas; den Boer, Arnoud V.
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam
摘要：We consider dynamic pricing and demand learning in a duopoly with multinomial logit demand, both from the perspective where firms compete against each other and from the perspective where firms aim to collude to increase revenues. We show that joint-revenue maximization is not always beneficial to both firms compared to the Nash equilibrium, and show that several other axiomatic notions of collusion can be constructed that are always beneficial to both firms and a threat to consumer welfare. N...
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作者：Kang, Kang; Doroudi, Sherwin; Delasay, Mohammad; Wickeham, Alexander
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University
摘要：We propose a new modeling framework for evaluating the risk of disease transmission during a pandemic in small-scale settings driven by stochasticity in the arrival and service processes, that is, congestion-prone confined-space service facilities. We propose a novel metric, system-specific basic reproduction rate, inspired by the basic reproduction rate concept from epidemiology, which measures the transmissibility of infectious diseases. We derive our metric for various queueing models of se...
