Innovations involving information technology (IT) provide potentially valuable investment opportunities for industry and government organizations. Significant uncertainties are associated with decision-making for IT investment though, a problem that senior executives have been concerned about...

A karst collapse pillar (KCP) is caused by the karst subsidence that occurs in carbonate rock distribution areas. Current KCP studies focus mainly on aspects such as the cause of formation, rule of development, groundwater inrush, and structural characteristics of the pillar and sidewall rock...

The prediction of groundwater inflow in karst collapse pillar has an important impact on safety underground mining, and the occurrence of these groundwater disasters is likely to be controlled and decreased via establishing an accurate groundwater inflow prediction system. However, the...

This study develops an analytical model to evaluate competing retail firms' sourcing strategies in the presence of supply uncertainty. We consider a common supplier that sells its uncertain supply to two downstream retail firms engaging in price competition in a horizontally differentiated...

In this paper, a market-based decomposition method for decomposable linear systems is developed. The solution process iterates between a master problem that solves the market-matching problem, and subproblems that solve the agents' bundle-determination problems. Starting from any initial price...