The rapidly developing online food delivery business is a novel “ecosystem” involving digital platforms, restaurants, delivery-workers, and customers. Continuous expansion of its market size is accompanied by problems of economic fairness such as “wage distribution” and “revenue...

The rapidly developing online food delivery business is a novel “ecosystem” involving digital platforms, restaurants, delivery-workers, and customers. Continuous expansion of its market size is accompanied by problems of economic fairness such as “wage distribution” and “revenue...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Risk conduction of supply chain disruptions -- chapter 3 The loss assessment methods of supply chain disruptive events -- chapter 4 Supply chain coordinated models under the risk of demand disruptions -- chapter 5 Supply chain coordinated models under the risk...

We explore buyback contracts in a supplier–retailer supply chain where the retailer faces a price-dependent downward-sloping demand curve subject to uncertainty. Differentiated from the existing literature,this work focuses on analytically examining how the uncertainty level embedded in market...

The book focuses on forecasting foreign exchange rates via artificial neural networks. It creates and applies the highly useful computational techniques of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to foreign-exchange-rate forecasting. The result is an up-to-date review of the most recent research...

Analysis of Pull Postponement by EOQ-based Models -- Analysis of Postponement Strategy by EPQ-based Models -- Evaluation of a Postponement System with an (r, q) Policy -- Simulation of a Two-End-Product Postponement System -- Application of Postponement: Examples from Industry -- Conclusions,...

The predictability of stock market is of great interest to both reseachers and investors. Despite voluminous evidence of in-sample predictability, the out-of-sample predictability of stock returns remains an ongoing debate. In this paper, motivated by both the financial theories and the well...

Manufacturers today are increasingly adopting a dual channel to sell their products, i.e., the traditional retail channel and an online direct channel. Empirical studies have shown that service quality (we focus on the delivery lead time of the direct channel) even goes beyond product price as...