Copyright: © 2016 INFORMS Abstract. Many retailers have recently started to offer customers the option to buy online and pick up in store (BOPS). We study the impact of the BOPS initiative on store operations.We build a stylizedmodel where a retailer operates both online and offline channels. Customers strategically make channel choices. The BOPS option affects customer choice in twoways: by pr...

This paper investigates the Stackelberg equilibrium for pricing and ordering decisions in a dominant retailer dual-channel supply chain. In a dual-channel sales network, the products are sold through both a traditional, physical retailer and a direct Internet channel. It is assumed that the retailer is the leader and the powerful member of the supply chain has the market power and acts as a lea...

Materialized views are a powerful feature that has been part of the Oracle RDBMS since version 8.1. Based upon the snapshot replication feature, they have evolved considerably into a capable tool for significantly improving performance on queries at higher levels of hierarchical organization structures. When they are effectively implemented across an entire data warehouse, the total number of l...

In the bin covering problem, the goal is to fill as many bins as possible up to a certain minimal level with a given set of items of different sizes. Online variants, in which the items arrive one after another and have to be packed immediately on their arrival without knowledge about the future items, have been studied extensively in the literature. We study the simplest possible online algori...

Online services and applications extend influencing opportunities to traditional word-of-mouth advertising. Unlike traditional word-of-mouth, the online environment provides certain features, amongst others, anonymity in user-generated content. Further, the personality of online users affects their motivation to actively provide online articulations. This paper focuses on how personality specif...