As the internet traffic dividend disappears, the growth of e-commerce platforms slows and competition among sellers increases. Cooperative advertising schemes between e-commerce platforms and sellers come into being. This paper considers advertising strategies in a supply chain with one...

The expanding availability of data in the financial sector promises to take the performance of machine learning models to a new level. However, given the high business value and confidentiality of credit data, integrating datasets from multiple institutions for modeling may result in privacy...

Resampling-based methods for multiple hypothesis testing often lead to long run times when the number of tests is large. This paper presents a simple rule that substantially reduces computation by allowing resampling to terminate early on a subset of tests. We prove that the method has a low...

Taking the city of Xiamen, China, as an example, we used thermal infrared remote sensing to detect thermal pollution, and examined its relationship to energy consumption and the industrial economy. Monthly changes in 2002 and dynamics throughout the period of rapid urbanization (1987–2007) are...

Although concentrating solar power (CSP) technology has been projected as one of the most promising candidates to replace conventional power plants burning fossil fuels, the potential advantages and disadvantages of the CSP technology have not been thoroughly evaluated. To better understand the...

Consider a class of densities that are piecewise constant functions over partitions of the sample space defined by sequential coordinate partitioning. We introduce a prior distribution for a density in this function class and derive in closed form the marginal posterior distribution of the...