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作者：Tan, Yinliang (Ricky); Xiong, Yan; Gao, Haibing; Li, Xi; Zhao, Huazhong
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Renmin University of China; University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Retailers are often short on capacity, so a logical assumption would be that retailers could improve their profits by acquiring more. In this study, we show that this is not necessarily true, because retailer's capacity has a strategic role in channel distribution. Specifically, we consider a setting with multiple suppliers and a common retailer. Our analysis reveals that, first, when the retailer's capacity is limited, its suppliers will compete head-to-head for the retailer's capacity, there...
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作者：Han, Xiao; Yu, Yun; Jia, Bin; Gao, Zi-You; Jiang, Rui; Zhang, H. Michael
作者单位：Beijing Jiaotong University; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：In a transportation system with multiple equilibria, coordination failure occurs when a group of travelers could achieve the efficient equilibrium but fail because they cannot coordinate their decision-making under strategic uncertainty. This study investigated factors that might affect coordination behavior in mode choice with both positive and negative externalities. Subjects participated in a mode-choice game in which they were required to choose between public transport and private car. Po...
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作者：Yang, Jie; He, Fang; Lin, Xi; Shen, Max Zuo-Jun
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Tsinghua University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
摘要：In this paper, we study a parking management problem where an operator manages a publicly owned parking service system with unknown parking demand. Assuming that the operator has perfect information, we first formulate the operator's problem as a stochastic dynamic programming problem, and to overcome the curse of dimensionality, we resort to approximate dynamic programming for solving it. However, in practice, some information that is essential for centralized management is usually privately ...
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作者：Bichler, Martin; Merting, Soeren
作者单位：Technical University of Munich
摘要：Course assignment is a very widespread problem in education and beyond. Typically, students have preferences for bundles of course seats or course schedules over the week, but courses have limited capacity. This is an interesting and frequent application of distributed scheduling, where payments cannot be used to implement the efficient allocation. First-Come First-Served (FCFS) is simple and the most widely used assignment rule in practice, but it leads to inefficient outcomes and envy in the...
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作者：Liu, Baoshan; Guan, Xu; Wang, Yulan
作者单位：China University of Geosciences; Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：In this study, we investigate the supplier's encroachment incentive when it distributes the product through multiple retailers. We show that the number of enrolled downstream retailers plays a pivotal role in determining the supplier's encroachment incentive and the channel members' performances. There exists a threshold value with respect to the number of downstream retailers, below which the bright side of supplier encroachment documented in the existing literature exists; that is, encroachm...
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作者：Tang, Yanli; Guo, Pengfei; Tang, Christopher S.; Wang, Yulan
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; City University of Hong Kong; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Female user (driver and rider) safety is a serious concern for ride-hailing platforms. One way to address this concern is to migrate from the traditional pooling system that matches riders with drivers without considering gender to a hybrid system with a female-only option. Will such a hybrid system result in a win-win-win outcome for all involved parties (riders, drivers, and the platform)? To answer this question, we investigate the performance of the two operational systems: a pooling syste...
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作者：Koca, Esma; Valletti, Tommaso; Wiesemann, Wolfram
作者单位：Imperial College London
摘要：When releasing a new version of a durable product, a firm aims to attract new customers as well as persuade its existing customer base to upgrade. This is commonly achieved through a rollover strategy, which comprises the price of the new product as well as the decision to discontinue the sale of the existing product (solo rollover) or to sell the existing product at a discounted price (dual rollover). In this study, we argue that the timing of the new product release is an important-but commo...
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作者：Li, Hongmin; Huh, Woonghee T.; Sampaio, Matheus C.; Keng, Naiping
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of British Columbia; Northwestern University
摘要：We present and solve a joint production and qualification planning problem for a manufacturing environment with high process flexibility. Various factors contribute to the complexity of the problem, one of which is product-machine mapping: Each machine may be qualified to produce multiple products and each product can be produced on multiple machines. To meet a build-plan, the factory needs to not only determine a multi-machine multi-product production schedule that accounts for sequence-depen...
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作者：He, Qiao-Chu; Nie, Tiantian; Yang, Yun; Shen, Zuo-Jun
作者单位：Southern University of Science & Technology; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Hong Kong
摘要：In this study, we propose an integrated model of two-sided stochastic matching platforms to understand the design and operations of free-float shared-mobility systems. In particular, we address the joint design of incentives (via crowd-sourcing) and spatial capacity allocations (enabled by geo-fencing). From the platform's perspective, we formulate stylized models based on strategic double-ended queues. We optimize the design and operations of such systems in a case study using a data set from...
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作者：Huang, Weixiang; Li, Yanzhi; Chen, Youhua
作者单位：South China University of Technology; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Popular tariffs in the telecommunications market, such as three-part tariffs and flat-rate plans, specify an allowance below which customers enjoy a free and high-quality service. When they consume beyond the allowance, customers either need to pay for the overage (under three-part tariffs) or receive a degraded service (under flat-rate plans), thus experiencing an overage disutility. Some network service providers have recently begun to allow data trading among their subscribers, who can now ...
