Operating under both supply-side and demand-side uncertainties, a mobile-promotion platform conducts advertising campaigns for individual advertisers. Campaigns arrive dynamically over time, which …
Motivated by an application at a postacute healthcare provider, we study an infinite-horizon, stochastic optimization problem with a set of long-term capacity investment decisions and a sequence of…
We study the problem of managing queues in online food-ordering services where customers, who place orders online and pick up at the store, are offered a common quote time, that is, the promised pi…
We study a multiproduct pricing problem in which the prices of the products are restricted to discrete and finite sets. The demand for a product is a function of the prices of all the products. The…
The wide variety of pricing policies used in practice by data sellers suggests that there are significant challenges in pricing data sets. In this paper, we develop a utility framework that is appr…
A buyer faces a two-dimensional mechanism design problem for awarding a project to one among a set of contractors, each of whom is privately informed about the contractor’s cost and the contracto…
Problem definition: We analyze a contract in which a supplier who is exposed to disruption risk offers a supply-flexibility contract comprising of a wholesale price and a minimum-delivery fraction …
Process capacity and the associated notions of bottleneck activities and bottleneck resources—which are responsible for limiting process capacity to its present value—are fundamental concepts i…