Problem definition: Cash transfer programs (CTPs) have spread in the last decade to help fight extreme poverty in different parts of the world. A key issue here is to ensure that the cash is distri…
This paper describes the operations of most on-demand meal delivery platforms and discusses how empirical research can improve the operational performance of these platforms. To support and encoura…
The tradeoff between the spatial resolution and estimation accuracy of the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) sets a technical hurdle for Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers (BOTDAs) based on orth…
We study how the procurement process may help a buyer reduce purchasing costs under a dual-sourcing setting. First, we analyze the equilibrium outcomes when the buyer simultaneously or sequentially…
Graphs with complete node attributes have been widely explored recently. While in practice, there is a graph where attributes of only partial nodes could be available and those of the others might …
In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a scheme of deep learning enhanced long-range fast Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA). The volumetric data from fast BOTDA is de…
In modern equity markets, participants have a choice of many exchanges at which to trade. Exchanges typically operate as electronic limit order books under a price-time priority rule and, in turn, …
Distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS), which can distributed measure static parameters such as temperature and strain, have been extensively researched and applied in industrial fields over the …
The development of optical fiber technology has facilitated the technological innovation in optical fiber communication and sensing systems over the past decades. Among all the fiber sensing techno…
Long range phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometer (φ-OTDR) sensing mainly employs distributed amplification in the sensing fiber. It requires the light to be injected into both ends of …