Software ecosystems is an increasingly popular form of industry organization promoted by leading software vendors. Due to its novelty and complexity, many issues remain unclear for the various parties involved in the ecosystem. A transition from more conventional industry structures and relationships to an ecosystem will likely have profound impacts on business as well as technical design choic...

Secure two-party protocols are of significant research and application value. All-or-Nothing Disclosure of Secrets (ANDOS) is such a kind of cryptographic task. It involves two parties, a vendor and a buyer. The vendor, say Alice, who disposes of several secrets and is willing to sell any of them to the buyer, say Bob, with the guarantee that no information about the other secrets will be obtai...

In the recent years, companies have begun to strengthen their supply agreements, such as sharing the management of inventories. This type of cooperation implies that the members of the supply chain share information and arrange a mutual agreement on their performance targets. The increased interest on supply chain topics has attracted researchers’ attention to the problem of co-operation betwee...

Product acceptance determinations are practical tools for quality control applications involving quality contract on product orders between the vendor and the buyer. It provides the vendor and the buyer rules for product acceptance to meet the preset product quality requirement. As the rapid advancement of manufacturing technology, more than one quality characteristic must be simultaneously con...

Under the assumption that the replenishment lead time is dependent on both lot size of the buyer and production rate of the vendor, an integrated production inventory model is presented in this paper. The decision-making interaction of lead time between a buyer and a vendor in the integrated inventory model is analyzed. In terms of the model, a solution procedure has been developed to obtain th...

In this paper we deal with the integrated supply chain management problem in the context of a single vendorsingle buyer system for which the production unit is assumed to randomly shift from an in-control to an out-of-control state. At the end of each production cycle, a corrective or preventive maintenance action is performed, depending on the state of the production unit, and a new setup is c...

This paper developed integrated production–inventory-marketing models for a two-stage supply chain consisting of one vendor and one buyer. The aim of the paper was to decrease the inconsistency between theory and practice of inventory management by relaxing some unrealistic assumptions such as constant demand and fully perfect items that make the models practically impossible for real-life prob...

This paper presents the problem of a vendor-buyer integrated production inventory model for two stage supply chain under investment for quality improvement. The buyer faces as a linear demand, which is assumed to be function of its unit selling price. Total profit is the supply chain performance measure and it is computed as the difference between revenue from sales and total cost, where the la...

The proposed study addresses a two-echelon sustainable supply chain (SC) model with single-vendor and single-buyer by considering the detrimental impacts of environmental pollution due to production. Moreover, an estimation function measure production is developed through separate modelling. In entire chain, we assume deterioration rate increases time it also depends on product’s expiration dat...