During times of emergency, private organizations as well as local, state, and federal authorities must coordinate in real time to create an effective response. When coordination is absent, failure results, as was seen after Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti Earthquake. Using primary data that the...

One of the greatest challenges to integrating renewable energy resources into power operations is the variability in electricity output from these resources. The electricity system works essentially as a supply chain with a nearly zero tolerance for delay and storage resources that remain very...

The emergence of carriers that deliver items to geographically dispersed destinations quickly and at a reasonable cost, combined with the low cost of sharing information through networked databases, has opened up new opportunities to better manage inventory. We investigate these benefits in the...