We study energy consumption and inventory control in a make-to-stock manufacturing system. We consider a Markovian system with a single server. The server consumes energy, and the associated energy cost depends on the server state: a busy server consumes more power than an idle server does, and...

We consider two competing firms' new product introduction and pricing problem where both firms introduce their products sequentially and set their prices at equilibrium. We use discrete features with different quality levels. Products can have unique features that are present only in one...

Firms have to determine the right features and price for their new products as they introduce new product generations to the market. We consider the problem of determining the features of a new product that will be introduced by a monopolist into a market that contains an existing product as...

Product rollovers take place when a product generation is replaced by a successor generation. The problem of deciding on the number of old products to be pre-produced before the introduction period, and then deciding on the prices, sales volumes, and production volumes of the old and the new...