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作者：Sheu, Jiuh-Biing; Choi, Tsan-Ming
作者单位：National Taiwan University; University of Liverpool; University of Liverpool
摘要：This work addresses the issue of intelligent robot-human-coordinated parts-to-picker order fulfillment carried out in a human-friendly manner. One unique feature of the proposed approach involves integrating a real-time data-driven stochastic-dynamic model with a fatigue accumulation function. The optimal solutions help achieve coordination between human pickers and robots, such that robots can agilely adapt to the coordinated pickers' efficiency and fatigue conditions. Specifically, the propo...
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作者：Clarkson, Jake; Voelkel, Michael A.; Sachs, Anna-Lena; Thonemann, Ulrich W.
作者单位：Universite Cote d'Azur; University of Cologne; Lancaster University; Lancaster University
摘要：A retailer places orders periodically for items that are shipped by a wholesaler. Items that are not sold perish randomly and independently of one another, with the perish probability depending on the age class. We consider a first-in-first-out policy for depleting items. We model this problem as a Markov decision process with stochastic demand, unit holding, outdating and ordering costs, plus unit penalty costs for lost sales. We prove convexity for the penultimate period and show convexity m...
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作者：Naumov, Sergey; Keith, David
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Ride-hailing platforms such as Uber and Lyft promise to reduce the negative externalities of driving and improve access to transportation. However, recent empirical evidence has been mixed about the impact of ride-hailing on US cities, often resulting in a net increase in traffic congestion and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, largely due to increased travel demand and competition with public transit. Pooled rides, in which multiple passengers share a single vehicle, are an effective solution t...
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作者：Cheng, Stephanie; Lin, Pengkai; Tan (Ricky), Yinliang; Zhang, Yuchen
作者单位：Tulane University; Singapore Management University; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：The past three decades have witnessed a tremendous shift in public health policies toward marijuana legalization in the United States. Adopting the process-based view of innovation, we hypothesize that marijuana's increased use and related consequences after its legalization affect innovators' behavior and social environment during the innovation process, which in turn impacts regional innovation. Utilizing the staggered adoption of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) by 20 states between 1996 and 2...
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作者：Guo, Xiaomeng; Kuang, Yunjuan; Ng, Chi To
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：This paper examines firms' post-merger integration (PMI) strategy under price and service-quality competition when facing either deterministic or stochastic demand. Although horizontal mergers are prevalent in practice and have been analyzed extensively in the literature, little attention has been paid to the choice of PMI level. We develop a game-theoretic model, in which multiple firms compete on price and service quality with either deterministic or stochastic demand, and two of them decide...
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作者：Song, Sining; Dong, Yan; Kull, Thomas; Carter, Craig; Xu, Kefeng
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Climate change is a major global risk and a key driver for greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Yet, firms' internal emissions reduction may create a leakage leading to higher emissions in the supply chain. The related literature suggests that the pollution-haven hypothesis explains such emissions leakage. In contrast, we explore an alternative reason for supply chain leakage, which is related to optimization of supply chain activities and supply chain innovation. Based on panel data from Bloom...
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作者：Murthy, Nagesh N. N.; Nagaraja, Haikady N. N.; Berenji, Hossein Rikhtehgar
作者单位：University of Oregon; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Pacific University
摘要：Aggressive overlapping of stochastic activities during phases of vaccine development has been critical to making effective vaccines for COVID-19 available to the public, at pandemic speed. In cyclical projects wherein activities can be overlapped, downstream tasks may need rework on account of having commenced prior to receiving requisite information that is only available upon completion of upstream task(s). We provide a framework to understand the interplay between stochastic overlap duratio...
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作者：Menon, Rahul; Nan, Lin
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：This study examines the optimal reporting time a regulator should choose for firms to report their information when the firms' effort choices influence the outcome of projects. Our analysis shows that, the regulator's optimal choice of reporting time to maximize overall efficiency is contingent on a trade-off between motivating a firm's effort to improve the outcome and saving the liquidation value for the creditor to reduce the firm's financing cost. We also find that to induce the firm's eff...
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作者：Gupta, Shivam; Agrawal, Anupam; Ryan, Jennifer K. K.
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (IIMU)
摘要：We consider a novel principal-agent model that captures some salient features of an agile software development project. Specifically, the project is technically complex, can be modularized via a set of independent stories which are developed in sprints, and has requirements that can change over time due to exogenous changes in business needs, technologies, or market conditions. In addition, given the iterative nature of agile development, our model also captures and analyzes the interaction be...
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作者：Singh, Siddharth Prakash; Delasay, Mohammad; Scheller-Wolf, Alan
作者单位：University of London; University College London; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Internet-based technology enables firms to disseminate real-time delay information to delay-sensitive customers. We study how such delay announcements impact service providers in a competitive environment with two service providers who compete for market share. We model the service providers' strategies based on an endogenous timing game, investigating strategies that emerge in equilibrium. We determine the service providers' market shares under the various game outcomes by analyzing continuou...
