This paper addresses an integrated biomass pricing and logistics network design problem. A bilevel design and pricing model is proposed to capture the dynamic decision process between a biofuel pro…
Motivated by the allocation of online visits to product, service, and content suppliers in the platform economy, we consider a dynamic contract design problem in which a principal constantly determ…
We propose new sequential simulation–optimization algorithms for general convex optimization via simulation problems with high-dimensional discrete decision space. The performance of each choice …
Platelets are critical blood products. The management of platelet inventory is particularly challenging because of its perishable nature with a short shelf life. Motivated by a platelet inventory m…
In this paper, we study a tumor-immune system interaction model with dendritic cell therapy and immune response delay. First, it is shown that the ODE version of the model has a Bogdanov–Takens (…
This paper is devoted to the study of basic reproduction ratios R0 for time-periodic homogeneous evolution systems. We introduce the definition of R0 and show that the sign of R0-1 determines the s…
We demonstrate a short-time long distance distributed high-temperature sensing by non-local Haar transform (NLH) in optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR). By searching similar pixels across…
Pipeline integrity management is of great significance for ensuring the safety of life and property. Due to the stable running, no pressure drops, and hidden characteristics, the identification and…
Silica optical fiber derived from yttrium-aluminum-garnet (YAG) crystals is an excellent high-gain fiber due to their high rare earth ions doping concentration. It offers a new opportunity of addre…
Highly coherent lasers with spectral hyperpurity can further advance the fields of science and engineering. Especially, a light source with controllable frequency domain parameters can be adapted t…