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作者：Li, Rong
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：Retailers such as Best Buy are reinventing their supply chains for the era of Omnichannel with new strategies like ship-from-store-to-store (SFSTS) where stores are also used as shipping points. Under the SFSTS practice, to fill the demand (offline and online) from a customer region, two or more nearby stores of the retailers' frequently replenish from each other as well as from a distribution center (DC) to better prepare inventory before the demand arrives. We study how to best replenish the...
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作者：Rastpour, Amir; Ingolfsson, Armann; Kolfal, Bora
作者单位：Ontario Tech University; University of Alberta
摘要：Emergency systems are designed to almost always have enough capacity to respond to emergencies. However, capacity shortage periods do occur and these systems need to recover quickly. In this study, we apply queueing models and study whether it is better for an emergency system to add or to expedite servers, in order to quickly recover from a capacity shortage period. We focus on emergency medical service (EMS) systems and use Erlang loss models to study Red Alerts (when all ambulances are busy...
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作者：Bensoussan, Alain; Mookerjee, Vijay; Yue, Wei T.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：In this study, we focus on the maintenance of an intrusion detection system (IDS) that attempts to discriminate between benign and malicious traffic arriving at a firm. An attack is more likely to successfully harm the firm if the ability of its IDS to discriminate between malicious and benign traffic is low, implying loopholes or vulnerabilities in the firm's security. A novel aspect of this study is the modeling of both continuous degradation in system discrimination ability (drift) and the ...
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作者：Jain, Tarun; Hazra, Jishnu; Cheng, T. C. Edwin
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Illegal content uploads on social platforms have grown rapidly in recent years. While previous research has studied various enforcement efforts to remove illegal content, we consider such enforcement efforts in the setting where the content is sold through a platform firm. Furthermore, we consider the situation in which along with the subscription-based legal content on the platform, there is free illegal content that may generate revenues through advertisements for the platform. Specifically,...
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作者：Akkas, Arzum; Sahoo, Nachiketa
作者单位：Boston University
摘要：Product expirations at retail stores erode profits and burden the environment. We investigate whether manufacturers can leverage salesforce compensation design as a waste-reduction tool. We propose a data-driven framework that uses structural econometric modeling and agency theory. Our analysis starts with a game theoretic model in which a salesperson interacts with a manufacturer that reimburses retailers and penalizes its own salesforce for expired products. We then use our model's equilibri...
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作者：Ghoshal, Abhijeet; Kumar, Subodha; Mookerjee, Vijay
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：We analyze a case where two competing firms, a personalizing firm that makes product recommendations and a non-personalizing firm that does not recommend products, compete with each other and may participate in a data sharing alliance (in which the non-personalizing firm shares its data with the personalizing firm). The customer is strategic as she first visits the personalizing firm to find out what product to purchase among the recommended ones and purchases the product eventually from one o...
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作者：Bapna, Ravi; Day, Robert; Rice, Sarah
作者单位：University of Connecticut; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Much of the prominent literature describing behavior in eBay-like marketplaces emphasizes the successful use of sniping agents that wait until the last moments of an auction to bid (truthfully) on behalf of a human user. These agents fare well against naive agents (typically assumed to be those who bid incrementally on the most profitable open auction) who do not get the chance to respond to the snipe-bid placed in the final seconds. This reasoning, however, tends to ignore the effect of the p...
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作者：Guan, Xu; Wang, Yulan; Yi, Zelong; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Shenzhen University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：In this study, we investigate a seller's voluntary disclosure strategy when serving two groups of consumers who arrive sequentially and are reference dependent with respect to product quality. Consumers may be naive or sophisticated, depending on whether they can make rational inferences from the seller's disclosure behavior and an experienced consumer's quality review. We show that when consumers are naive, the seller can strategically withhold high-quality information and disclose low-qualit...
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作者：Gui, Luyi
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：To tackle the severe pollution caused by electronic waste (e-waste), several developing countries have introduced e-waste legislation based on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). A major challenge to implement EPR in developing countries is the lack of formal recycling infrastructure. In this paper, we study if a collective form of EPR implementation where producers may jointly invest in recycling facilities can promote their incentives to do so. We develop a Nash bargaining model that cap...
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作者：Emadikhiav, Mohsen; Bergman, David; Day, Robert
作者单位：University of Connecticut
摘要：We study the planning and scheduling of order shipments among laboratories of an instrument-calibration company. To address a generic version of the company's combined routing and scheduling problem, we introduce a model variant with simultaneous pickups and deliveries in which consistency of site visits is also desired. We provide alternative formulations of the problem and propose branch-and-check and branch-and-price implementations, with an analysis of the instance characteristics for whic...
