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This paper explores an omnichannel retail system under which the retailer offers coupons via online channels for market share and profit. It investigates action mechanism of coupon promotion on price operational decisions by employing a theoretical model. Three distribution modes are investigated; scenario in does not offer coupons, with common face value, or different value. The results show t...

Abstract: The risks of alternating current (AC) corrosion and overprotection increasingly demand new criteria forcathodically protected pipelines. To assess the risk of AC corrosion, new cathodic protection (CP) criteria have beenproposed based on DC/AC current densities measurements using coupons. The monitoring system designed for thisproject was based on the instant-off method, with steel co...

Abstract This article recasts the traditional challenge of calibrating a material constitutive model into hierarchical probabilistic framework. We consider Bayesian framework where parameters are assigned distributions, which then updated given experimental data. Importantly, in true engineering setting, we not interested inferring for single experiment, but rather over population possible samp...

We describe a new cardinality estimation algorithm that is extremely space-efficient. It applies one of three novel estimators to the compressed state of the Flajolet-Martin-85 coupon collection process. In an apples-to-apples empirical comparison against compressed HyperLogLog sketches, the new algorithm simultaneously wins on all three dimensions of the time/space/accuracy tradeoff. Our proto...

European options on coupon bonds are studied in a quantum field theory model of forward interest rates. A approximation scheme for finding the option price is developed based on the fact that the volatility of the forward interest rate is a small quantity. The field theory for the forward interest rates is in effect Gaussian, and when the payoff function for the coupon bonds option is included ...

One of the most challenging problems on modern urban planning and one of the goals to be solved for smart city design is that of urban waste disposal. Given urban population growth, and that the amount of waste generated by each of us citizens is also growing, the total amount of waste to be collected and treated is growing dramatically (EPA 2011), becoming one sensitive issue for local governm...

This paper uses an HJM model to price TIPS and related derivative securities. First, using the market prices of TIPS and ordinary U.S. Treasury securities, both the real and nominal zero-coupon bond price curves are obtained using standard coupon-bond price stripping procedures. Next, a three-factor arbitragefree term structure model is fit to the time series evolutions of the CPI-U and the rea...