Emphasis on effective demand management is becoming increasingly recognized as an important factor in operations performance. Operations models that account for supply costs and constraints as well as a supplier’s ability to influence demand characteristics can lead to an improved match between supply and demand. This paper presents a class of optimization models that allow a supplier to select...

 Non-cooperative joint replenishment under asymmetric information Evren Korpeoglu, Kemal Guler, Alper Sen HP Laboratories HPL-2013-9 inventory competition; Joint replenishment; Economic order quantity model; asymmetric information; We consider jointly replenishing n ex-ante identical firms that operate under an EOQ like setting using a non-cooperative game under asymmetric information. In this...

Robert C. Leachman • Jeenyoung Kang • Vincent Lin Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720–1777 IBM Korea, Inc., MMAA Building, Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea 467–12 Leachman and Associates LLC, 5870 Carmel Way, Union City, California 94587 [email protected] • [email protected] • vincent@leachma...

Value functions of impulse control problems are known to satisfy Quasi-Variational Inequalities (QVI) (Bensoussan and Lions (1982)). This paper proves the smooth-fit C1 property of the value function for multi-dimensional controlled diffusions, using a viscosity solution approach. We show by examples how to exploit this regularity property to derive explicitly optimal policy and value function....

We observe a curious property of dual versus primal-dual path-following interior-point methods when applied to unbounded linear or conic programming problems in dual form. While primal-dual methods can be viewed as implicitly following a central path to detect primal infeasibility and dual unboundedness, dual methods can sometimes implicitly move away from the analytic center of the set of infe...

An Optimization Framework for Solving Capacitated Multi-level Lot-sizing Problems with Backlogging Tao Wu†, Leyuan Shi†,>, Joseph Geunes‡, Kerem Akartunalı∗ † Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 ‡ Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 ∗ Department of Management Science, Univ...

T paper provides a critical review of analytic research on the business economics of product reuse inspired by industrial practice. Insights and critical assumptions are provided for each paper. We further classify the research into four streams: industrial engineering/operations research, design, strategy, and behavioral, and present a framework linking these streams. We find that some modelin...

This paper deals with the sales of commercial advertisements in the cable television industry. It describes in detail the dynamics of the entire process, and develops the notion of an audience loss function, the minimization of which is equally desirable to both networks as well as advertisers. A simple, yet robust linear model is described for optimizing this loss function, subject to the cons...

This study revisits the Guitang Group, one of the best known industrial symbiosis cases in the sugar industry. Our goal is to offer an evolutionary understanding of industrial symbiosis at the Guitang Group. This article focuses on the organizational boundary change of the Guitang Group over time, and acknowledges this process as one of the seven industrial symbiosis dynamics proposed by Boons ...

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department at the University of California at Berkeley. For the past 10 years, he has served as Berkeley site director of Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC), sponsored by the National Science Foundation and industry members. He has been a consultant to private and government organizations including the Brazilian Electricity Regulator...