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作者：Sinha, Ashesh Kumar; Krishnamurthy, Ananth
作者单位：Kansas State University; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
摘要：We analyze production and capacity utilization strategies in a supply chain where individual components can be made either at a shared in-house manufacturing facility or at dedicated facilities of external subcontractors. The manufacturer and the subcontractor differ in terms of costs, production capacities, rates, and service level capabilities. Using Markov decision process models, we determine the optimal policy and characterize its structure. We derive the set of conditions that partitions...
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作者：Zhao, Wenhui; Hall, Nicholas G.; Liu, Zhixin
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We consider a company that schedules the tasks of its projects to maximize their expected net present value (ENPV) when tasks may fail. The failure of any task terminates the project immediately. We show that for projects with certain decreasing failure rates, the ENPV optimization problem can be solved using a linear program. The main focus of our work is on how constant task failure rates contribute to decreasing project risk as tasks are completed. Under constant task failure rate, earlier ...
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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：Wooten, Joel O.; Donohue, Joan M.; Fry, Timothy D.; Whitcomb, Kathleen M.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：As procurement auctions increasingly move to digital platforms, more data and information is available (or can be made available) to bidders. Despite this trend, relatively little is known about the impact of information asymmetries in these settings. We investigate two such differences in first-price sealed-bid reverse auctions with a common value. In a design that mirrors real construction procurement auctions, our laboratory experiment tests the impact of the precision of a bidder's cost es...
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作者：Kumar, V; Saboo, Alok R.; Agarwal, Amit; Kumar, Binay
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Huazhong University of Science & Technology; MICA; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：Competitive intelligence is a critical component of developing and implementing organizational strategies. Although firms may obtain aggregate market-level competitive information, resource allocation decisions such as inventory management or capacity planning are made at the individual product-firm-market level. Acquiring such disaggregated information about competitors across various products and markets poses significant challenges, including integrating data from different (and conflicting...
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作者：Zhang, Juzhi; Sethi, Suresh P.; Choi, Tsan-Ming; Cheng, T. C. E.
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：The classical newsvendor problem seeks to minimize the expected inventory cost or maximize the expected profit. But optimizing an expected value alone does not fully capture the stochastic nature of the newsvendor problem. Inspired by the higher-moment analyses explored in finance literature, we conduct a mean-variance-skewness-kurtosis (MVSK) analysis for the newsvendor problem. We first derive the analytical expressions for the profit's mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis in the standard ...
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作者：Guo, Pengfei; Liu, Fang; Wang, Yulan
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：We study a two-stage decision problem, namely, the allocation and deployment of reserved inventories (RIs) in a supply network with random demand surges. The demand surge follows a time-dependent stochastic process and our objective is to minimize the expected total unmet demand in the presence of positive transshipment lead times. We first solve the optimal deployment problem given that the demand surges have occurred at some locations. We show that the optimal deployment policy is a nested p...
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作者：Sharma, Luv; Chandrasekaran, Aravind; Bendoly, Elliot
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：This research examines the performance benefits of the Office of Patient Experience (OPX), a new administrative innovation in the health care industry. OPX is an independent structure within a hospital, having its own annual budget and full-time staff, and is responsible for improving patient experience during the hospital stay. We specifically investigate the effectiveness of OPXs in improving experiential quality (EQ), measured as the quality of interactions between hospital's caregivers and...
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作者：Li, Shan; Chen, Kay-Yut
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要：Motivated by the emergence of the Internet-enabled inventory sharing across firms, we investigate different commitment scenarios of decentralized inventory sharing platforms, through a behavioral lens. In particular, we consider two transfer price commitment settings (ex ante or ex post depending on whether or not the inventory transfer price is committed before demand realization) and two sharing commitment rules (automatic or voluntary depending on whether or not inventory sharing are pre-co...
