The burgeoning application of probabilistic selling (PS) in the retail industry spawns resale markets for component products, motivating investigation of the impact of resale markets on PS. In line with practice (e.g., Pop Mart), our basic model focuses on pure PS in which only probabilistic...

This book treats the subject of global optimization with minimal restrictions on the behavior on the objective functions. In particular, optimal conditions were developed for a class of noncontinuous functions characterized by their having level sets that are robust. The integration-based...

Problem Definition: There is a fierce debate among practitioners regarding ad blockers. On one hand, ad blockers are considered a serious threat to content platforms because advertising is a key revenue driver. On the other hand, people also argue that ad blockers improve the advertising...