A recycling object is in its recycle chain and its status may often change according to recycling stage or reusing status; even its structure could often dynamically change accordi...
Computational social choice is a new discipline currently emerging at the interface of social choice theory and computer science. It is concerned with the application of computati...
Policy search is a method for approximately solving an optimal control problem by performing a parametric optimization search in a given class of parameterized policies. In order ...
In this paper, we study the contracting issues in an outsourcing supply chain consisting of a user company and a call center that does outsourcing work for the user company. We mo...
There is growing evidence that consumers are influenced by Internet-based opinion forums before making a variety of purchase decisions. Firms whose products are being discussed in...