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作者：Zhang, Wei; Wang, Jingqi; Ahmadi, Reza; Dasu, Sriram
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Southern California
摘要：We consider a high-technology supply chain wherein a manufacturer is sourcing a new component from a monopolistic supplier who has limited production capacity. We focus on a setting wherein the manufacturer has decided to adopt the component but has not introduced the end product to the market and the manufacturer's task is to negotiate with the supplier for the procurement price before a deadline. The only uncertainty is the number of manufacturers adopting this component, which determines th...
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作者：Wu, Chunlin; Yao, Han; Ning, Xin; Wang, Lei
作者单位：Beihang University; Beihang University; Dongbei University of Finance & Economics
摘要：As an important domain of disaster management, accident prevention is an urgent and crucial subject because of the high frequency and severe consequences of industrial accidents in recent times. Current researchers focus on organization-level safety antecedents, among which leadership receives the highest attention. However, formal leadership of senior managers is limited by the level-by-level effect attenuation, such that frontline accidents cannot be controlled substantially. Thus, this stud...
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作者：Kasapidis, Gregory A.; Paraskevopoulos, Dimitris C.; Repoussis, Panagiotis P.; Tarantilis, Christos D.
作者单位：Athens University of Economics & Business; University of London; Athens University of Economics & Business
摘要：A common assumption in the shop scheduling literature is that the processing order of the operations of each job is sequential; however, in practice, there can be multiple connections and finish-to-start dependencies among the operations of each job. This paper studies flexible job shop scheduling problems with arbitrary precedence graphs. Rigorous mixed integer and constraint programming models are presented, as well as an evolutionary algorithm is proposed to solve large-scale problems. The ...
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作者：Ma, Qian; Shou, Biying; Huang, Jianwei; Basar, Tamer
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; City University of Hong Kong; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：The quality of many online services (such as online games, video streaming, cloud services) depends not only on the service capacity but also on the number of users using the service simultaneously. For a new online service, the potential users are often uncertain about both the capacity and congestion level of the service, and hence are uncertain about the quality of service (QoS). In this study, we consider users' participation-dependent social learning (PDSL), that is, learning of the QoS t...
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作者：Li, Meng; Liu, Yunchuan
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Many retailers and manufacturers accept product returns from consumers (via money-back guarantees) and retailers (via full-credit return policies) respectively. While the extant literature focuses on either manufacturer or retailer return policies, this study investigates both return policies and finds that a manufacturer's return policy can induce the retailer to adopt a return policy. Although accepting consumer returns hurts the manufacturer when the manufacturer sells through non-competing...
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作者：Kennedy, Adrian Patrick; Sethi, Suresh P.; Siu, Chi Chung; Yam, Sheung Chi Phillip
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
摘要：We propose a model to assess the value of a distributor in a dynamic stochastic cooperative advertising supply chain in which a manufacturer wholesales its product to a distributor who in turn sells it to a retailer. Moreover and importantly, the distributor also intermediates the pricing and advertising decisions between the manufacturer and the retailer. For the resulting three-player hierarchical game formulation of the supply chain, we characterize the feedback Stackelberg equilibrium in t...
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作者：Morales, Sebastian; Thraves, Charles
作者单位：Universidad de Chile
摘要：In an election campaign, candidates must decide how to optimally allocate their efforts/resources optimally among the regions of a country. As a result, the outcome of the election will depend on the players' strategies and the voters' preferences. In this work, we present a zero-sum game where two candidates decide how to invest a fixed resource in a set of regions, while considering their sizes and biases. We explore the two voting systems, the Majority System (MS) and the Electoral College ...
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作者：Chen, Zhi; Xie, Weijun
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：We study the fundamental stochastic newsvendor model that considers both demand and yield randomness. It is usually difficult in practice to describe precisely the joint demand and yield distribution, although partial statistical information and empirical data about this ambiguous distribution are often accessible. We combat the issue of distributional ambiguity by taking a data-driven distributionally robust optimization approach to hedge against all distributions that are sufficiently close ...
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作者：Shaheen, Iana; Azadegan, Arash; Roscoe, Samuel
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of Sussex
摘要：Do humanitarian organizations exhibit similar risk-taking behavior? This study analyzed 60 interviews from 24 case studies on four types of organizations involved in disaster response: established, expanding, extending, and emergent. By elaborating on organizational attention theory, this study investigated how organizational tasks, structures, attention, and context combine to influence organizational risk-taking behavior by different organizational types during sudden-onset disasters. Counte...
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作者：Yin, Qianbo; Huang, Kwei-Long; Kuo, Chia-Wei; Zhou, Sean X.
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; National Taiwan University; National Taiwan University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：We consider add-on pricing in a distribution channel where a retailer sells a base good and an add-on, supplied by two manufacturers, respectively, to consumers. The retailer decides whether to sell the two products through either bundling or add-on pricing and sets the corresponding retail prices. Under add-on pricing, the add-on price is unobservable to consumers when they make the purchase decision of the base good. Each manufacturer, if independent of the retailer, sets the wholesale price...
