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Operations Research & Management Science
Marzieh Karimi, Hasan Khademi-Zare, Yahia Zare-Mehrjerdi, Mohammad Bagher Fakhrzad
Summary: This study investigates service, price, and inventory decisions under competition and cooperation between retailers in a vendor-managed inventory system. The results show that retailer cooperation can enhance retailer performance while reducing manufacturer and system profits, and motivates retailers to offer lower service levels.
RAIRO-OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
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Business
Weina Xu, Gui-Hua Lin, Xide Zhu
Summary: This paper provides an analytical framework for ride-hailing and aggregation platforms in unbundled and bundled scenarios. The study examines the optimal strategies and profits of drivers and platforms using a Stackelberg game model. Sensitivity analysis reveals the impact of bundling strategies on ride-hailing platform profits.
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH
(2022)
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Business
Pu-yan Nie, Zi-rui Chen, Chan Wang
Summary: Through the duopoly model, this article develops the theory of patent pricing, showing that the price of a patent is related to the firm's marginal costs and increases consumer surplus. In a Stackelberg situation, firms with higher marginal costs will price patents higher compared to Cournot cases.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2021)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Yeming Dai, Yuqing Yang, Mingming Leng
Summary: In this study, a novel alternative energy trading mechanism is proposed to analyze the purchase and sale strategies for integrated energy retailers in the context of integrated energy substitution and retail side liberalization. Simulation results and sensitivity analysis demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and highlight the importance of natural gas distribution rate and conversion rate for the retailers' profit.
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Management
Fouad El Ouardighi, Jeongeun Sim, Bowon Kim
Summary: This research investigates the impact of horizontal and vertical competition, as well as strategy types, on pollution in supply chains. The study finds that identifying the optimal combination of market structure and strategy type can reduce pollution in supply chains.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xin Cui, Chi Zhou, Jing Yu, Ali Nawaz Khan
Summary: E-commerce platforms profit from offering extended warranty service (EW). Manufacturers need to distinguish if consumers have purchased EW when recycling products. A closed-loop supply chain model with EW is established. Three recycling pricing strategies for the manufacturer are discussed: low price attracts non-EW purchasers, high price attracts both types of consumers, and discriminatory pricing for both types. Results show that discriminatory pricing increases product recycling and saves manufacturing costs. High recycling price is suitable for short base warranty periods and low product residual value. Both the manufacturer and e-commerce platform benefit from recycling strategies. The platform does not offer EW for long base warranty durations.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
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Operations Research & Management Science
Yongwu Zhou, Jie Liu, Xiaoli Wu
Summary: This paper develops a price competition model for two supply chains, examining the wholesale price contracts between manufacturers and retailers. The study finds that when manufacturers bargain with retailers, sales volume increases and sales price decreases. The decision of manufacturers' mode is influenced by bargaining power, product quality level, and the cost of improving product quality.
JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
(2022)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Asif Iqbal Malik, Biswajit Sarkar, Muhammad Waqas Iqbal, Mehran Ullah, Irfanullah Khan, Muhammad Babar Ramzan
Summary: This paper focuses on coordination in a two-member supply chain with a flexible production system under buyer's service level constraint and stochastic demand. Multiple inspection policy and discrete investment function are used to improve cost-sharing scenario. The study develops three SC models and the results show that the centralized cooperative model based on Nash bargaining significantly improves the overall profit of the SC.
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2023)
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Engineering, Multidisciplinary
N. Khanlarzade, S. H. Zegordi, I. Nakhai Kamalabadi
Summary: This study analyzed the price competition between two multi-echelon supply chains with identical structures under different market power structures. It found that supply chains did not always have the second-mover advantage, and both supply chains benefited from having a leader in the market under a centralized structure for different market size combinations.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Yukun Cheng, Xiaotie Deng, Mengqian Zhang
Summary: Transportation sharing in goods, facilitated by the mobile Internet and cloud computing platforms, has become a thriving sector in the sharing economy. However, the influx of competitors has led to an oversupply of vehicles, reducing social efficiency. To address this issue, a business solution is proposed, wherein a joint venture is established to provide shared electric cars for different competitors to operate on, thus reducing infrastructure costs.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Zichuan Xu, Qiufen Xia, Lin Wang, Pan Zhou, John C. S. Lui, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Guowei Wu
Summary: This paper investigates the problem of caching services originally deployed in remote clouds to cloudlets in a hierarchical service market. A novel approximation-restricted framework is proposed to guarantee the stability of the 5G service market. An approximation algorithm with a provable approximation ratio is designed for the problem with non-selfish network service providers. An efficient Stackelberg congestion game with selfish network service providers is also designed, and the Price of Anarchy (PoA) of the proposed game is analyzed. A service caching problem with the uncertainty of request rates is studied, and an approximation algorithm and a Stackelberg game leveraging the randomized rounding technique are proposed. The performance of the proposed algorithms and mechanisms is evaluated through simulations and implementations in a real test-bed, achieving around 9.2% less cost than existing approaches.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING
(2023)
Article
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Jian Wang, Huijuan Jiang
Summary: The study found that the manufacturer Stackelberg model is the most beneficial game structure for the overall supply chain, but leads to a larger revenue gap between the manufacturer and the retailer; under price competition and service competition, the manufacturer should differentiate prices and services for direct sales standard and customized products based on market status; when customers are more sensitive to product customization, the manufacturer should increase customization expenditures and offer more diverse products.
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Engineering, Mechanical
A. M. Awad, S. S. Askar, A. A. Elsadany
Summary: This paper proposes an economic competition between two firms aiming to maximize the weighted average social welfare and own profits. The competition is described by a nonlinear discrete dynamic map, and its complex dynamic characteristics such as global dynamic behavior, multistability, and synchronization are investigated. The results show that the Nash equilibrium point of the competition can be destabilized through flip bifurcation.
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
(2022)
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Management
Yong Zha, Lu Zhang, Chuanyong Xu, Tingting Zhang
Summary: The study reveals that the intertemporal reference price effect leads to a Hi-Lo pricing strategy, while the horizontal reference price effect drives selling prices down in both periods. The intertemporal reference price effect is weakened by the horizontal reference price effect, and as the intertemporal reference price effect strengthens, the horizontal reference price effect weakens in the first period and intensifies in the second. Additionally, price commitment may not always be beneficial and can result in losses for both firms.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2021)
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Thermodynamics
Bo Sun, Mingzhe Li, Fan Wang, Jingdong Xie
Summary: This paper proposes an incentive mechanism considering the government, retailers, and residents as participants. The mechanism involves monetary and price incentives and is regulated by the government and retailers. A two-level Stackelberg game is formulated to operate the mechanism, where the government and retailers determine optimal incentives to minimize their costs and maximize profits, respectively, and retailers send incentive signals to residents for maximizing their welfare. The results suggest that the cooperation between government and retailers significantly increases renewable energy consumption, and both monetary and price incentives are effective, with price incentive having a greater impact.
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Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Vahid Kayvanfar, S. M. Moattar Husseini, B. Karimi, Mohsen S. Sajadieh
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(2018)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Danyar Molavi, Amin Shahmardan, Mohsen S. Sajadieh
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(2018)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Vahid Kayvanfar, S. M. Moattar Husseini, Mohsen S. Sajadieh, B. Karimi
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(2018)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Arash Zaretalab, Hamidreza Shahabi Haghighi, Saeed Mansour, Mohsen S. Sajadieh
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
(2019)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Amin Shahmardan, Mohsen S. Sajadieh
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2020)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Arash Zaretalab, Seyedhamidreza Shahabi Haghighi, Saeed Mansour, Mohsen S. Sajadieh
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
(2020)
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Engineering, Industrial
Erfan Shafiee Roudbari, S. M. T. Fatemi Ghomi, Mohsen S. Sajadieh
Summary: With the improvement in human society's quality of life, there is a greater need for natural resources. Factors such as the quality of returned products significantly impact the reverse logistics network. A two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming model and hybrid algorithm have been proposed to address large-scale problems, which were applied to a real-world scenario successfully.
JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
(2021)
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Operations Research & Management Science
Matineh Ziari, Mohsen Sheikh Sajadieh
Summary: Closed-loop supply chains have gained more attention in recent years due to government regulations, environmental issues, social responsibilities, and natural resource constraints. This paper presents a mixed-integer linear programming model to design a closed-loop supply chain network and optimize pricing policies under random disruption. Reusing returned products is proposed as a resilience strategy to address energy waste and improve supply efficiency.
RAIRO-OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Management
Matineh Ziari, Morteza Ghomi-Avili, Mir Saman Pishvaee, Hamed Jahani
Summary: This paper provides a comprehensive review of competitive pricing models in supply chain management, summarizing past research and presenting future research directions.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2022)
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Engineering, Industrial
Mohammad Saffari, Mohsen S. Sajadieh, Farhad Hassanzadeh
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2019)
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Management
Vahid Kayvanfar, S. M. Moattar Husseini, Zhang NengSheng, Behrooz Karimi, Mohsen S. Sajadieh
MANAGEMENT RESEARCH REVIEW
(2019)
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Engineering, Multidisciplinary
M. Hemmati, S. M. T. Fatemi Ghomi, M. S. Sajadieh
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Xiaolin Wang, Liyi Zhan, Yong Zhang, Teng Fei, Ming-Lang Tseng
Summary: This study proposes an environmental cold chain logistics distribution center location model to reduce transportation costs and carbon emissions. It also introduces a hybrid arithmetic whale optimization algorithm to overcome the limitations of the conventional algorithm.
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2024)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Hong-yu Liu, Shou-feng Ji, Yuan-yuan Ji
Summary: This study proposes an architecture that utilizes Ethereum to investigate the production-inventory-delivery problem in Physical Internet (PI), and develops an iterative heuristic algorithm that outperforms other algorithms. However, due to gas prices and consumption, blockchain technology may not always be the optimal solution.
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2024)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Paraskevi Th. Zacharia, Elias K. Xidias, Andreas C. Nearchou
Summary: This article discusses the assembly line balancing problem in production lines with collaborative robots. Collaborative robots have the potential to improve automation, productivity, accuracy, and flexibility in manufacturing. The article explores the use of a problem-specific metaheuristic to solve this complex problem under uncertainty.
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2024)
