The deterioration in profitability of listed companies not only threatens the interests of the enterprise and internal staff, but also makes investors face significant financial loss. It is important to establish an effective early warning system for prediction of financial crisis for better...

Retailers often conduct non-overlapping sequential online auctions as a revenue generation and inventory clearing tool. We build a stochastic dynamic programming model for the seller's lot-size decision problem in these auctions. The model incorporates a random number of participating bidders in...

In this paper, quantitative models for direct marketing models are reviewed from a systems perspective. A systems view consists of input, processing, and output and the six key activities of direct marketing that take place within these constituent parts. A discussion about inputs for direct...