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作者：Cheng, T. C. E.; Choi, Tsan-Ming; Zhao, Xiande
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
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作者：Choi, Byung-Cheon; Lee, Kangbok; Leung, Joseph Y. -T.; Pinedo, Michael L.; Briskorn, Dirk
作者单位：Chungnam National University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick; New Jersey Institute of Technology; New York University; University of Cologne
摘要：We consider the transport of containers through a fleet of ships. Each ship has a capacity constraint limiting the total number of containers it can carry and each ship visits a given set of ports following a predetermined route. Each container has a release date at its origination port, and a due date at its destination port. A container has a size 1 or size 2; size 1 represents a 1 TEU (20-foot equivalent unit) and size 2 represents 2 TEUs. The delivery time of a container is defined as the ...
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作者：Elomri, Adel; Ghaffari, Asma; Jemai, Zied; Dallery, Yves
作者单位：Universite Paris Saclay
摘要：This paper focuses on the issues of coalition formation and cost allocation in a joint replenishment system involving a set of independent and freely interacting retailers purchasing an item from one supplier to meet a deterministic demand. The papers dealing with this problem are mainly focused on supperadditive games, where the cost savings associated with a coalition increase with the number of players in the coalition. The most relevant question addressed then is how to allocate the saving...
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作者：Cooper, William L.; Li, Le
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Microsoft
摘要：We consider settings in which a revenue manager controls bookings over a sequence of flights. The revenue manager uses a buy-up model to select booking limits and updates estimates of the model parameters as data are accumulated. The buy-up model we consider is based upon a simple model of customer choice, wherein each low-fare customer who is not able to purchase a low-fare ticket will, with a fixed probability, buy up to the high fare, independent of everything else. We analyze the evolution...
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作者：Tanrisever, Fehmi; Erzurumlu, S. Sinan; Joglekar, Nitin
作者单位：Eindhoven University of Technology; Boston University; Babson College
摘要：Whether to invest in process development that can reduce the unit cost and thereby raise future profits or to conserve cash and reduce the likelihood of bankruptcy is a key trade-off faced by many startup firms that have taken on debt. We explore this trade-off by examining the production quantity and cost reducing R&D investment decisions in a two period model wherein a startup firm must make a minimum level of profit at the end of the first period to survive and operate in the second period....
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作者：Honhon, Dorothee; Gaur, Vishal; Seshadri, Sridhar
作者单位：Eindhoven University of Technology; Cornell University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：We study a sourcing problem faced by a firm that seeks to procure a product or a component from a pool of alternative suppliers. The firm has a preference ordering of the suppliers based on factors such as their past performance, quality, service, geographical location, and financial strength, which are commonly included in a supplier scorecard system. Thus, the firm first uses available inventory from supplier 1, if any, then supplier 2, if any, and so on. The suppliers differ in costs and pr...
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作者：Jin, Yue; Ryan, Jennifer K.
作者单位：Alcatel-Lucent; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
摘要：We consider a buyer who outsources the manufacturing of a product to multiple symmetric make-to-stock suppliers who compete on price and service (fill rate). The buyer allocates demand to the suppliers using a score function with an exponential form, which specifies the relative importance of price vs. service, in order to minimize his costs, while the suppliers choose their prices and fill rates to maximize their profits. For the case of dual-sourcing, we characterize the optimal parameter of...
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作者：Gao, Fei; Demirag, Ozgun Caliskan; Chen, Frank Y.
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University
摘要：Some retailers of seasonal products adopt weather-conditional rebate programs to induce early sales and increase profits. In such promotions, customers who buy the product in an advance preselling period are offered rebates if a pre-specified weather condition is realized during the later normal selling season. We investigate the potential benefits of these programs for retailers. We show that the weather-conditional rebate program can increase sales by price discriminating among a customer's ...
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作者：Chandrasekaran, Aravind; Mishra, Anant
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; George Mason University
摘要：High technology organizations need to develop new products or processes that address the dual goals of exploration and exploitation. The competing viewpoints and the asymmetric nature of market returns associated with these goals in R&D projects can heighten stress levels among project team members and reduce their psychological safety. While current research calls for greater focus on task design for improving psychological safety, we know little about how team contextual factors affect this ...
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作者：Tao, Zhijie; Zhou, Sean X.; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：We study a remanufacturing system that involves the ordering of a serviceable product and the remanufacturing of multiple types of returned products (cores) into the serviceable product. In addition to random demand for the serviceable product and random returned quantities of different types of cores in each time period, the remanufacturing yield of each type of core is also uncertain. By analyzing a multi-period stochastic dynamic program, we derive several properties of the optimal ordering...
