作者：Wang, Zheng; Sheu, Jiuh-Biing; Teo, Chung-Piaw; Xue, Guiqin
作者单位：Dalian Maritime University; National Taiwan University; National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore
摘要：Intelligent part-to-picker systems are spreading across a broad range of industries as preferred solutions for agile order fulfillment, wherein mobile racks are carried by robots and moved to stations where human pickers can pick items from them. Such systems raise the challenge of designing good work schedules for human pickers; they also give rise to a new class of operational scheduling problems in human-robot coordinated order picking systems. This work studies the problem of finding a sui...
作者：Bai, Jiaru; Gurnani, Haresh; Yin, Shuya
作者单位：Wake Forest University
摘要：Traditionally, outlet stores were situated away from main stores in order to provide older, less desirable products at discounted prices. More recently, some firms have featured an outlet-within-a-store concept and offer consumers the experience of outlet shopping at the same location. With interest in examining the effect of location differentiation and uncertain outlet store's product fit on a firm's distribution strategy, we model a firm with an existing main store and study its motivation ...
