In this paper we propose a covering problem where the covering radius of a facility is controlled by the decision-maker; the cost of achieving a certain covering distance is assumed to be a monotonically increasing function of the distance (i.e., it costs more to establish a facility with a...

We study three problems on supply chain location and inventory under uncertainty. In Chapter 2, we study the inventory purchasing and allocation problem in a movie rental chain under demand uncertainty. We formulate this problem as a newsvendor-like problem with multiple rental opportunities. We...

Pricing and capacity allocation are two important decisions that a service provider needs to make to maximize service quality and profit. This thesis attempts to address the pricing and capacity planning problems in operations management from the following three aspects.We first study a capacity...