Secure message transmission in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is a challenging task due to its highly dynamic nature. In VANETs, road side unit (RSU) transmits different types of service messages to those vehicles, who have subscribed for that type of message. Intermediate vehicles, those are not subscribed to that service may also receive the message due to broadcast nature of wireless med...

I model strategic interaction between issuers, underwriters, retail investors, and institutional investors when the secondary market has limited price transparency. Search costs for retail investors lead to price dispersion in the secondary market, while the price for institutional investors is infinitely elastic. Because retail distribution capacity is assumed to be limited for each underwrite...

the latest instrument in islamic financial market is sukuk securities.   sukuk is a flexible stock securities that can meet the financial needs of firms in the capital markets. however, sukuk is considered as an alternative investment securities for bonds that receive usury which is forbidden in islam. the growth of  sukuk market in recent years, mainly due to its role in monitoring and control...

Mobile data offloading through complementary network technologies such as WiFi and femtocell can significantly alleviate network congestion and enhance users’ QoS. In this paper we consider a market where mobile network operators (MNOs) lease third-party deployed WiFi or femtocell access points (APs) to dynamically offload the traffic of their mobile users. We assume that each MNO can employ mu...

This paper addresses the problem of supply chain design at the strategic level when production/distribution of a new market opportunity has to be launched in an existing supply chain. The new market opportunity is characterized by a deterministic forecast expected to occur per period. The product (or service) is assumed to be produced (or provided) in a three-stage capacitated supply chain wher...

The revenue management concept and techniques are applied to model the coordination of supply chain elements. The fundamental premise of this approach is synchronization of a group of business entities consist-ing of a manufacturer and multiple suppliers to achieve an optimal supply chain capacity plans. The output of the supply chain can be various products and thus it is measured in terms of ...

There has been a rapid growth in the deployment of robots in the past decade. From aircraft assembly to home cleaning, robots have been working for us in many domains of our lives. However, there is one important barrier that limits their performance: these autonomous systems become very brittle when they fail to achieve what they were asked to do. No matter it is a sophisticated manufacturing ...