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作者：Akkas, Arzum; Honhon, Dorothee
作者单位：Boston University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Products approaching the end of their shelf life on retail store shelves are more likely to result in food waste. For this reason, manufacturers establish shipping policies related to the age of the products that leave their warehouses, that is, they set a maximum age beyond which shipping to retail stores is no longer allowed. In practice, most existing policies are simple one-size-fits-all rules that do not accommodate the varying characteristics of the products. We offer a framework that ma...
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作者：Zhang, Wei; Gao, Long; Zolghadr, Mohammad; Jian, Dawei; El Hafsi, Mohsen
作者单位：Zhejiang University; University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：The rise of contract farming has transformed millions of farmers' lives. We study a new class of contract farming problems, where the farmer holds superior information and can invest effort to improve productivity over time. Despite their prevalence, the literature offers little guidance on how to manage such farmers with dynamic incentives. We build a game-theoretic model that captures the dynamic incentives of learning and gaming, with hidden action and information. We characterize the optim...
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作者：Nikoofal, Mohammad Ebrahim; Pourakbar, Morteza; Gumus, Mehmet
作者单位：Toronto Metropolitan University; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; McGill University
摘要：Global trade is seafaring commerce; 90% of traded goods are carried by maritime transport, which has become vulnerable to security risks. This has led governments to initiate security programs serving tens of thousands of members worldwide. This paper studies the government's incentive design and the interaction between Customs inspection capacity and the incentives offered in security programs. Using the theory of incentives, we investigate the value of a partnership in improving the security...
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作者：Ng, Ka Chung; Ke, Ping Fan; So, Mike K. P.; Tam, Kar Yan
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Singapore Management University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Singapore Management University
摘要：Online platforms are experimenting with interventions such as content screening to moderate the effects of fake, biased, and incensing content. Yet, online platforms face an operational challenge in implementing machine learning algorithms for managing online content due to the labeling problem, where labeled data used for model training are limited and costly to obtain. To address this issue, we propose a domain adaptive transfer learning via adversarial training approach to augment fake cont...
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作者：Fan, Xiaoshuai; Chen, Ying-Ju; Tang, Christopher S. S.
作者单位：Southern University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Southern University of Science & Technology
摘要：Motivated by the challenge of allocating scarce resources from the federal government to different states during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper studies optimal schemes for allocating scarce resources to agents with private demand information under different favoritism structures. Through an investigation of a mechanism design model that aims to induce agents to report their demands truthfully, we find the following results. First, when the principal purely cares about social welfare and whe...
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作者：Kasapidis, Gregory A.; Dauzere-Peres, Stephane; Paraskevopoulos, Dimitris C.; Repoussis, Panagiotis P.; Tarantilis, Christos D.
作者单位：University of Liverpool; Athens University of Economics & Business; IMT - Institut Mines-Telecom; Mines Saint-Etienne; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); BI Norwegian Business School; City St Georges, University of London; Athens University of Economics & Business
摘要：This paper aims at linking the work presented in Dauzere-Peres et al. (1998) and more recently in Kasapidis et al. (2021) on the multiresource flexible job-shop scheduling problem with nonlinear routes or equivalently with arbitrary precedence graphs. In particular, we present a mixed integer linear programming (MIP) model and a constraint programming (CP) model to formulate the problem. We also compare the theorems introduced in Dauzere-Peres et al. (1998) and Kasapidis et al. (2021) and prop...
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作者：Logothetis, Dimitrios; Economou, Antonis
作者单位：National & Kapodistrian University of Athens; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
摘要：Nowadays, a transportation station has the possibility to provide its potential passengers with information regarding the arrival times of the successively arriving facilities, the congestion in the station and the space availability of future facilities. Such information influences the behavior of the passengers who think strategically and consequently the throughput and the welfare that are generated by the system. In the present work, we consider a general model of a transportation station ...
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作者：Li, H. Alice; Wan, Xiang
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Disputes between retailers and manufacturers often result in the retailer delisting the manufacturer's products, which dramatically alters competition in the retail market. When rival products are temporarily delisted, the products remaining on retail shelves are expected to gain sales due to substitution. However, it is unclear how much sales gain of remaining products can be expected, how long the sales gain persists after the rival products are relisted, whether the sales gain varies in dif...
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作者：Zhou, Junjie; Liao, Chen-Nan; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：Tsinghua University; National Taiwan University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：We study the optimal selling scheme when a seller sells a product/service with a positive consumption externality, and customers are uncertain about the product's/service's value. Because early adopters learn this value, we consider the customers' intrinsic signaling incentives and positive feedback effects. Allowing the seller to choose the sequence of customers' decisions (as an endogenous hierarchy) implies that signaling takes place in multiple rounds. To tackle this hierarchical signaling...
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作者：Zheng, Hong; Tian, Lin; Li, Guo
作者单位：Beijing Institute of Technology; Beijing Institute of Technology; Fudan University; Beijing Institute of Technology
摘要：In recent decades, manufacturers have relied on giant retailers or e-tailers to distribute their products. Given this evolution, some retailers have started demanding a profit-margin-guarantee contract (PMG contract), under which the manufacturer must ensure that the retailer's profit margin does not fall below a certain level (PMG rate). Conventional wisdom suggests that a PMG contract creates a life-or-death struggle for the manufacturer and that a retailer with a PMG contract can gain a com...
