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Service center location problems with decision dependent utilities and a pandemic case study 决策依赖公用事业的服务中心定位问题和流行病案例研究

Naval Research Logistics (NRL) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 DOI: 10.1002/nav.22112

Fengqiao Luo, Sanjay Mehrotra

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Optimal activation of halting multi‐armed bandit models 停止多臂强盗模型的最佳激活

Naval Research Logistics (NRL) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 DOI: 10.1002/nav.22145

Wesley Cowan, M. Katehakis, S. Ross

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Managing inventory systems with dual delivery modes and minimum order quantities 管理库存系统与双重交付模式和最低订单数量

Naval Research Logistics (NRL) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 DOI: 10.1002/nav.22113

Yiran Li, Chaolin Yang

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Optimal interventions of infectious disease 传染病的最佳干预措施

Naval Research Logistics (NRL) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 DOI: 10.1002/nav.22114

Xu Sun, Yunan Liu

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Potential value of air: Effect of air pollution on retail store performance and customer behavior 空气的潜在价值:空气污染对零售商店业绩和顾客行为的影响

Naval Research Logistics (NRL) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 DOI: 10.1002/nav.22110

Weixin Liu, Jia Li, S. Huang, Yitong Wang

{"title":"Potential value of air: Effect of air pollution on retail store performance and customer behavior","authors":"Weixin Liu, Jia Li, S. Huang, Yitong Wang","doi":"10.1002/nav.22110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.22110","url":null,"abstract":"External environmental factors can deeply shape customer behavior and contribute to uncertainty in retail operations. In this study, we use field data from a national fashion sporting goods retail chain to empirically study the effect on retail store performance from one important but underappreciated external environmental factor, air pollution; and investigate the potential mechanism of this air pollution's impact. We find that air pollution has an inverted U‐shaped effect on store traffic, which is attributed to a shift of customers between offline shopping and other activities with different air pollution exposure levels. The variation in store traffic caused by air pollution further leads to a U‐shaped relationship between air pollution and the retail conversion rate. In addition, air pollution can affect customer composition as well as the perceived utility of products, reflected by more men's wear and less sportswear sold in hazy weather. In view of the globally increasing air pollution problem, especially in the context of climate change, our findings highlight the importance and value of taking air pollution into account in operations and marketing management.","PeriodicalId":19120,"journal":{"name":"Naval Research Logistics (NRL)","volume":"30 1","pages":"601 - 616"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84158131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A latent‐factor self‐exciting point process for software failures 软件故障的潜在因素自激点过程

Naval Research Logistics (NRL) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI: 10.1002/nav.22107

Atilla Ay, Joshua Landon, F. Ruggeri, R. Soyer

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Price or quantity? An analysis of strategies in the presence of gray markets 价格还是数量?灰色市场存在时的策略分析

Naval Research Logistics (NRL) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI: 10.1002/nav.22109

Jingxian Chen, Liang Liang, S. Mukhopadhyay, Dong-qing Yao

{"title":"Price or quantity? An analysis of strategies in the presence of gray markets","authors":"Jingxian Chen, Liang Liang, S. Mukhopadhyay, Dong-qing Yao","doi":"10.1002/nav.22109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.22109","url":null,"abstract":"Gray markets, a double‐edged sword for the multinational firms' profitability, can boost the sales revenues of low‐end subsidiaries while cannibalizing the demands of high‐end arms. To counter the adverse effects of the gray market, firms can flexibly adjust between the two strategies of setting prices (the price strategy) and choosing quantity (the quantity strategy) for its products. This paper investigates the best strategy for responding to gray markets. We consider a firm that produces two substitute products, each sold in an independent market (country). A gray marketer purchases the product sold in the low‐priced market and resells it in the high‐priced market, thereby starting a gray market. By studying the conditions of determining when and which strategy is more profitable, we establish several findings that are absent in the current literature. For instance, we find that it is likely that the quantity strategy could also be the best one in the presence of the gray competition. Moreover, implementing the quantity strategy can even automatically eliminate the gray market, which will not happen if the price strategy is employed. In addition, we identify special cases in which implementing one of the two strategies can lead to profit improvements while employing the other will cause the firm to suffer in case a gray market exists. We also examine the robustness of these findings in several cases of extensions of our model.","PeriodicalId":19120,"journal":{"name":"Naval Research Logistics (NRL)","volume":"23 1","pages":"558 - 573"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86267032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Resource allocation in two‐layered cyber‐defense 两层网络防御中的资源分配

Naval Research Logistics (NRL) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI: 10.1002/nav.22106

Michael P. Atkinson, M. Kress

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Particle count estimation in dilution series experiments 稀释系列实验中粒子数的估计

Naval Research Logistics (NRL) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 DOI: 10.1002/nav.22104

Yajie Duan, C. Lin, D. Sargsyan, Javier Cabrera, Christine M Livingston, R. Vogel, J. Sendecki, W. Talloen, H. Geys, Surya Mohanty

{"title":"Particle count estimation in dilution series experiments","authors":"Yajie Duan, C. Lin, D. Sargsyan, Javier Cabrera, Christine M Livingston, R. Vogel, J. Sendecki, W. Talloen, H. Geys, Surya Mohanty","doi":"10.1002/nav.22104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.22104","url":null,"abstract":"Estimation of microorganism concentration in samples (bacterial cells or viral particles) has been a focal point in biomedical experiments for more than a century. Serial dilution of the samples is often used to estimate the target concentrations in immunology, virology, and pharmaceutical industry. A new methodology, called joint likelihood estimation (JLE), is proposed to estimate particles such as the number of microorganisms in a sample from counts obtained by serially diluting the sample. It models count data from the entire single dilution series rather than using only specific dilutions. The theoretical framework is based on the binomial and the Poisson distributions and is consistent with the actual experimental process. The estimator of the target concentration is obtained by MLE with derived joint likelihood functions of the observed counts including right‐censored values. Simulations demonstrated that the new JLE method significantly increases precision and accuracy of the estimate compared to the existing methods. It can be applied to a variety of studies with similar experimental designs, especially when the number of particles in the neat sample is very large.","PeriodicalId":19120,"journal":{"name":"Naval Research Logistics (NRL)","volume":"55 1","pages":"472 - 479"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88999373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bilateral transshipment between competing retailers 相互竞争的零售商之间的双边转运

Naval Research Logistics (NRL) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 DOI: 10.1002/nav.22105

Qi Fu, Liming Liu, Weixin Shang

{"title":"Bilateral transshipment between competing retailers","authors":"Qi Fu, Liming Liu, Weixin Shang","doi":"10.1002/nav.22105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.22105","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates whether and how competing retailers should transship to each other in overlapping markets where customers encountering stock‐out at one retailer may switch to another. A two‐stage game model is used to examine the inventory and end‐of‐season transshipment decisions. We show that, instead of unconditional full‐transshipment for the case of non‐competing retailers, the stage‐2 optimal transshipment policy consists of no‐transshipment, partial‐transshipment, and full‐transshipment, determined by the interplay of switching probability, transshipment price, and remaining inventory. We find that transshipment dampens (respectively, intensifies) the inventory competition when the transshipment price is viable and below (respectively, above) a threshold. In addition to its inventory pooling effect, transshipment under competition also has a competition effect which is positive when transshipment dampens inventory competition but not too strongly. The option of bilateral transshipment leads to a Pareto improvement for competing retailers, when the competition effect is positive; but even when it is negative, Pareto improvement is still achievable for a wider transshipment price range in which the combined pooling and competition effect is positive. We identify explicitly the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique pair of coordinating transshipment prices and provide formulas to compute them.","PeriodicalId":19120,"journal":{"name":"Naval Research Logistics (NRL)","volume":"270 1","pages":"509 - 521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85193676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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