One of the major challenges that a remanufacturer faces at strategic planning level today is to match its supply (returned items) with demand due to the inherited uncertainties and variations on both sides. Forecasting product returns is one of the most important tasks of this matching process....

One of the major challenges that a remanufacturer faces at strategic planning level today is to match its supply (returned items) with demand due to the inherited uncertainties and variations on both sides. Forecasting product returns is one of the most important tasks of this matching process....

In an attempt to turn data management into a profitable enterprise, many businesses are seeking to integrate and centralise their data through data warehousing. A data warehouse then allows businesses to turn data into knowledge, and turn knowledge into tangible profits. One key success factor...

Asset health prediction is imperative to optimal asset management. Online and offline inspections can provide useful information for predicting asset health. The information from an asset health inspection can be divided into two types. (1) Direct indicators which directly determine failures...

Organisations owning and managing infrastructure assets are constantly striving to obtain the greatest life time value. This has resulted in an increasing preference for the privatisation of infrastructure asset provision based on the assumption of greater competition-led performance. Despite...

This paper studies the continuous-time dynamics of VIX with stochastic volatility and jumps in VIX and volatility. Built on the general parametric affine model with stochastic volatility and jumps in the logarithm of VIX, we derive a linear relationship between the stochastic volatility factor...

Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is one of the important anodic reactions in most of widely used electrochemical conversion devices . However, the four-electron transfer process in OER makes the reaction sluggish and reduces the efficiency accordingly. Although a lot of OER electrocatalysts have...

This paper studies the pricing strategy in the closed-loop supply chain with Nash bargaining when considering fairness concerns and risk aversion. Mainly, the authors argue that behavioral factors (i.e., fairness concern and risk aversion) should be introduced into pricing process. They consider...

The labor relationship is the predominant and fundamental relationship in human society. The regulation of this relationship is the most important to human being’s development.The regulation of the labor relationship is closely linked to personal basic rights and individual destiny.To regulate...