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作者：Geng, Qin; Mallik, Suman
作者单位：Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE); Kutztown University - Pennsylvania; University of Kansas
摘要：We study the joint decisions of offering mail-in rebates (MIRs) in a single-manufacturer-single-retailer supply chain using a game theoretic framework. Either party can offer an MIR to the end consumer if it is in his best interest. The consumer demand is stochastic and depends on the product price and the amount of MIRs. When the retail price is exogenous, we show the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium under both additive and multiplicative demand functions and characterize it completely....
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作者：Kim, Byung Cho; Chen, Pei-Yu; Mukhopadhyay, Tridas
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：An abundance of flawed software has been identified as the main cause of the poor security of computer networks because major viruses and worms exploit the vulnerabilities of such software. As an incentive mechanism for software security quality improvement, software liability has been intensely discussed among both academics and practitioners for a long time. An alternative approach to managing software security is patch release, which has been widely adopted in practice. In this paper, we ex...
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作者：Bretthauer, Kurt M.; Heese, H. Sebastian; Pun, Hubert; Coe, Edwin
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; California Pacific Medical Center
摘要：We consider the problem of optimal capacity allocation in a hospital setting, where patients pass through a set of units, for example intensive care and acute care (AC), or AC and post-acute care. If the second stage is full, a patient whose service at the first stage is complete is blocked and cannot leave the first stage. We develop a new heuristic for tandem systems to efficiently evaluate the effects of such blocking on system performance and we demonstrate that this heuristic performs wel...
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作者：Li, Cuihong; Scheller-Wolf, Alan
作者单位：University of Connecticut; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Consider a buyer, facing uncertain demand, who sources from multiple suppliers via online procurement auctions (open descending price-only auctions). The suppliers have heterogeneous production costs, which are private information, and the winning supplier has to invest in production capacity before the demand uncertainty is resolved. The buyer chooses to offer a push or pull contract, for which the single price and winning supplier are determined via the auction. We show that, with a pull con...
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作者：Gul, Serhat; Denton, Brian T.; Fowler, John W.; Huschka, Todd
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; North Carolina State University; Mayo Clinic
摘要：Uncertainty in the duration of surgical procedures can cause long patient wait times, poor utilization of resources, and high overtime costs. We compare several heuristics for scheduling an Outpatient Procedure Center. First, a discrete event simulation model is used to evaluate how 12 different sequencing and patient appointment time-setting heuristics perform with respect to the competing criteria of expected patient waiting time and expected surgical suite overtime for a single day compared...
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作者：Sosic, Greys
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：In their recent paper, Nagarajan and Sosic study an assembly supply chain in which n suppliers sell complementary components to a downstream assembler, who faces a price-sensitive deterministic demand. Suppliers may form alliances, and each alliance then sells a kit of components to the assembler and determines the price for that kit. The assembler buys the components (kits) from the alliances and sets the selling price of the product. Nagarajan and Sosic consider three modes of competition-su...
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作者：Xu, He; Yao, David D.; Zheng, Shaohui
作者单位：Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Columbia University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：We study an inventory system in which a supplier supplies demand using two mutually substitutable products over a selling season of T periods, with a single replenishment opportunity at the beginning of the season. As the season starts, customer orders arrive in each period, for either type of products, following a nonstationary Poisson process with random batch sizes. The substitution model we consider combines the usual supplier-driven and customer-driven schemes, in that the supplier may ch...
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作者：Helm, Jonathan E.; AhmadBeygi, Shervin; Van Oyen, Mark P.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Variability in hospital occupancy negatively impacts the cost and quality of patient care delivery through increased emergency department (ED) congestion, emergency blockages and diversions, elective cancelations, backlogs in ancillary services, overstaffing, and understaffing. Controlling inpatient admissions can effectively reduce variability in hospital occupancy to mitigate these problems. Currently there are two major gateways for admission to a hospital: the ED and scheduled elective adm...
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作者：Agrawal, Vijay K.; Agrawal, Vipin; Rungtusanatham, M.
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University Nebraska Kearney; California State University System; California State University Fullerton; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：We formally review the Author Affiliation Index (AAI) method as originally conceived by David Harless and Robert J. Reilly from the Economics Department at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business and as subsequently developed and interpreted by Gorman and Kanet in their 2005 article. Through this formal review, we first highlight and discuss two important informational inputs that can impact the stability of the AAI scores for journals in any given set of to-be-evaluated journa...
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作者：Gutierrez, Genaro J.; He, Xiuli
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：We analyze the dynamic strategic interactions between a manufacturer and a retailer in a decentralized distribution channel used to launch an innovative durable product (IDP). The underlying retail demand for the IDP is influenced by word-of-mouth from past adopters and follows a Bass-type diffusion process. The word-of-mouth influence creates a trade-off between immediate and future sales and profits, resulting in a multi-period dynamic supply chain coordination problem. Our analysis shows th...
