This paper studies the potential benefits of collaborative forecasting (CF) partnerships in supply chains that are capacity-constrained. Our supply chain consists of a manufacturer and a retailer, that operate in an information-rich environment, where one or both of them may be privy to valuable information that can be used to resolve demand uncertainty. To reflect the reality in capacity-const...

Radio Link Quality Estimation (LQE) is a fundamental building block for Wireless Sensor Networks, namely for a reliable deployment, resource management and routing. Existing LQEs (e.g. PRR, ETX, Fourbit, and LQI ) are based on a single link property, thus leading to inaccurate estimation. In this paper, we propose F-LQE, that estimates link quality on the basis of four link quality properties: ...

In this lecture we present a few key results in production planning with known time-varying requirements under convex or concave production costs. Convex production costs arise when we need to utilize increasingly more expensive resources to achieve higher levels of production. As an example, consider a factory with a regular workforce. If demand is beyond the capacity of the regular workforce,...

Exponential smoothing has been one of the most popular forecasting methods used to support various decisions in organizations, activities such as inventory management, scheduling, revenue and other areas. Although its relative simplicity transparency have made it very attractive for research practice, identifying underlying trend remains challenging with significant impact on resulting accuracy...