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All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields:
Jianbin Li, Minghui Xu, Ruina Yang
This paper investigates an optimal capacity expansion policy for innovative product in a context of one supplier and one retailer. With a fully deductible contract, we employ the Stackelberg game model to examine the negotiation process of capacity expansion…
Hari K. Rajagopalan, Cem Saydam, Hubert Setzler, Elizabeth Sharer
Emergency medical response providers’ primary responsibility is to deploy an adequate number of ambulances in a manner that will yield the best service to a constituent population. In this paper we develop a two-stage integrated solution for complex ambulance…
Yun Liang, Xiaode Zuo, Hong Lei
This paper used the Game Theory to research how to coordinate a kind of supply chain, which is made up of a dominant manufacturer, a TPL supplier and some retailers. It also discussed the node enterprises’ decision models in three situations: no coordination,…
Shmuel Hauser, Rita Yankilevitz, Rami Yosef
In the year 2000, the Israeli Securities Authority (ISA) initiated a new amendment to the Securities Law aimed at promoting dual listing of Israeli companies, already traded in the US, and not in Israel, by exempting them from the burden of additional reporti…
Chiang Ku Fan, Yu Hsuang Lee
The aims of this paper are (1) search for the key factors of bancassurance operation in mainland China; (2) explore the weight of each key success factor; (3) identify performance gaps typically measured as performance minus key success factors. This study be…
Avi Herbon, Eugene Khmelnitsky
A customer in a service system and an outside observer (manager or designer of the system) estimate the system performance differently. Unlike the outside observer, the customer can never find himself in an empty system. Therefore, the sets of scenarios, rele…
Lianda Wanyonyi Mauyo, Jonas N. Chianu, Bernard Kibet Nassiuma, Richard Onyango Musebe
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is an important grain legume in East Africa, providing food and income to rural households. Smallholder farmers in Kenya and Uganda have widely adopted improved varieties. The demand for common bean in Kenya outstrips domestic…
José Francisco Ferreira Ribeiro
A method for cellular manufacturing design in Group Technology is presented in this paper. The proposed method computes the dissimilarities between parts and organizes the production system in part-families and group-machines. A graph corresponding to the pro…
Xianming Fang
The warrant price fluctuated in a range based on the arbitrage-free hypothesis. However, in the actual transaction, the warrant price will deviate the price range because of the investor sentiment, sometimes the deviation is too far that the actual price brea…
Aidong Liu, Jinfang Liu
I tried to present a new method to prevent collusion through employing two auditors at the same time and inspiring them provide true report by exploiting their prisoner’s dilemma. But I found this method cannot be put into practice because of the high cost. S…
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