Companies could gain competitive advantage through the supply chain network. Especially facility location represent possible source of cost and service performance improvement. The goal of this article is to explore and expose what could be the facility key performance indicators. A literature...

In this paper we consider several facility location problems with applications to cost and social welfare optimization, when the area map is encoded as a binary (0,1) mxn matrix. We present algorithmic solutions for all the problems. Some cases are too particular to be used in practical...

We extend the market-making models with inventory constraints of Avellaneda and Stoikov ("High-frequency trading in a limit-order book", Quantitative Finance Vol.8 No.3 2008) and Gueant, Lehalle and Fernandez-Tapia ("Dealing with inventory risk", Preprint 2011) to the case of a rather general...

Une entreprise qui fonde sa stratégie sur la différenciation par le haut se doit de respecter un certain nombre d'engagements permettant de légitimer sa position. En effet, sur un marché concurrentiel, un positionnement haut de gamme doit pouvoir se justifier aux yeux des clients par une...

Le Conseil général de l'Isère, suite à la crise économique, se voit dans l'obligation de trouver des solutions pour optimiser son réseau. Comment peut-il minimiser ses dépenses et maximiser ses recettes ?

Le Transport à la Demande (TAD) en France est un outil permettant, entre autres, de desservir certaines zones qui ne bénéficient pas de lignes de transports collectifs régulières. Ce service, basé sur la demande de l'usager, a pour principales caractéristiques la souplesse et la...

Transboundary pollution is a particularly serious problem as it leads people located at regional borders to disproportionately suffer from pollution. In China, where the environmental policy is decentralized and where environmental conflicts between provinces have occurred several times,...

In the first section, a literature review on identification enables a clear definition of the "Customer-Company Identification" construct to be given. Then in the second section, the conceptual framework and the main hypothesis are exposed. In the third section, an empirical investigation into a...