Motivated by an evolving model of online bipartite networks, we introduce a model of weighted bipartite evolving networks. In this model, there are two disjoint sets of nodes, called user node set and object node set. Edges only exist between two disjoint sets. Edge weights represent the usage...

This paper evaluates the benefit of a strategy of sharing shipment information, where one stage in a supply chain shares shipment quantity information with its immediate downstream customers--a practice also known as advanced shipping notice. Under a periodic review inventory policy, one...

To study the spillover effects of FDI from different home countries on technical efficiency of China's enterprises, inter-provincial panel data of China from 1998 to 2012 are used as samples in this paper, and with capital, labor and CO2 as inputs, one-stage SFA method is applied to carry out...

There has been inadequate research to date that examined the in-depth processes by which firms adopt technology for operations and supply chain management or critical factors that may influence the operational value firms gain from information technology (IT)-enabled supply chain management....

Companies undertaking operations improvement in supply chains face many alternatives. This work seeks to assist practitioners to prioritize improvement actions by developing analytical expressions for the marginal values of three parameters – (i) lead time mean, (ii) lead time variance, and...

For energy security and environmental improvement reasons, the Chinese government is developing biomass ethanol as one of its transportation fuels. Cassava is a good feedstock to produce this ethanol because it has a high starch content and it is abundant in the southern provinces. A...

This research addresses the theoretically neglected question of how the internal diffusion of inter-organizational systems (IOS) into a firm's activities and its external diffusion into the supply chain partners influence performance improvement. Drawing on the resource-based view, our research...

The enhancement fishery is one of five pillar industries of aquatic products industry. Cultivation and development of enhancement fishery have certain conditions and advantages in China. From the concept of the enhancement fishery, this paper introduced four approaches for developing the...

Recent work has shown that the mathematics of multifractal can be used to provide a quantitative signature in many fields. In this paper, we investigate the traffic time series for volume data observed on Guangshen highway. Firstly, we find there exists a multifractal behavior in the traffic...

This paper explores the diffusion of competitive Internet technology products in the context of competition between local and multinational corporations as well as how the diffusive interactions between technologies affect their dominance in electronic markets. Drawing on existing theories of...