Understanding the Value of Fulfillment Flexibility in an Online Retailing Env…

Problem definition: Fulfillment flexibility, the ability of distribution centers (DCs) to fulfill demand originating from other DCs, can help e-retailers reduce lost sales and improve service quali…

FedFly : Toward Migration in Edge-Based Distributed Federated Learning

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning technique that trains models while keeping all the original data generated on devices locally. Since devices may be reso…

A Practical End-to-End Inventory Management Model with Deep Learning

We investigate a data-driven multiperiod inventory replenishment problem with uncertain demand and vendor lead time (VLT) with accessibility to a large quantity of historical data. Different from t…

Crowdfunding the Front Lines : An Empirical Study of Teacher-Driven School Im…

The U.S. K–12 public education system has been notoriously hard to improve. Some argue new education technologies (EdTech) can help transform schools for the better. Yet, as large-scale policy re…

The Price Effect of Drug Price Ceilings : Intended and Unintended Consequences

Policy makers in many developing countries use maximum price or markup policies to control pharmaceutical costs, which represent 20%–60% of their overall healthcare expenditure. We study the pric…

High Speed and High Sensitivity InGaAs/InAlAs Single Photon Avalanche Diodes …

A planar InGaAs/InAlAs single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) was fabricated and comprehensively characterized. At room temperature, the dark count rate is 3.1 MHz at 10.4% photon detection efficienc…

When Ignorance Is Not Bliss : An Empirical Analysis of Subtier Supply Network…

Using a multitier mapping of supply-chain relationships constructed from granular global, firm-to-firm supplier–customer linkages data, we quantify the degree of financial risk propagation from t…

Algorithm of crane selection for heavy lifts

Ergodic channel capacities for the amplify-and-forward half-duplex cooperativ…

Authentication of Moving Top-k Spatial Keyword Queries