When in-store display influences consumer choices, shelf space allocation can be strategically used by retailers to extract payments from manufacturers. The paper finds that manufacturers with better brand names have higher willingness-to-pay for shelf spaces. Shelf space fees soften inter-brand...

A service provider sells to homogenous risk-averse consumers through a two-part tariff. The consumers have uncertain tastes toward the service. They subscribe the service before the uncertainty resolves. In contrast with the common view that a monpolist's optimal two-part tariff for homogeneous...

In recent time, technology applications in different fields, especially Business Intelligence (BI) have been developed rapidly and considered to be one of the most significant uses of information technology with special position reserved. The application of BI systems provides organizations with...

Incentive contracts with multiple agents is a classical decentralized decision-making problem with asymmetric information. Contract design aims to incentivize noncooperative agents to act in the principal's interest over a planning horizon. We extend the single-agent incentive contract to a...

We investigate the dynamic pricing problem in on-demand ride-sharing using a continuous-time continuous-space approach. A ride-sharing platform controls two sides of the market, supply (vacant vehicles) and demand (customers' trip requests) via setting dynamic prices and commissions with the...

On-demand transportation systems (OTS) are increasingly popular worldwide. Modeling these systems as closed queueing networks (CQN) or semi-open queueing networks (SOQN) makes optimizations tractable, and controls robust to input data. Prior literature has obtained mean performance measures...

Real-time parking occupancy information is critical for a parking management system to facilitate drivers to park more efficiently. Recent advances in connected and automated vehicle technologies enable sensor-equipped cars (probe cars) to detect and broadcast available parking spaces when...

Activating self-scheduling workers on on-demand platforms when services are most needed is challenging because of a lack of cooperation between workers. To align workers' interests with the platform's profit-driven goals, various ride-sharing and food delivery platforms have recently embraced...

The performance of multimodal mobility systems relies on the seamless integration of conventional mass transit services and the advent of Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) services. Prior work is limited to individually improving various transport networks' operations or linking a new mode to an existing...