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IOR
2008
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Promised Lead-Time Contracts Under Asymmetric Information
We study the important problem of how a supplier should optimally share the consequences of demand uncertainty (i.e., the cost of inventory excesses and shortages) with a retailer...
Holly Lutze, Özalp Özer
IOR
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Dynamic Supplier Contracts Under Asymmetric Inventory Information
In this paper, we examine a supply chain in which a single supplier sells to a downstream retailer. We consider a multi-period model, with the following sequence of events. In per...
Hao Zhang, Mahesh Nagarajan, Greys Sosic
MANSCI
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang
MANSCI
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Does a Manufacturer Benefit from Selling to a Better-Forecasting Retailer?
This paper considers a manufacturer selling to a newsvendor retailer that possesses superior demand-forecast information. We show that the manufacturer's expected profit is c...
Terry A. Taylor, Wenqiang Xiao
NAACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Names Using Speak and Spell Mode in Spoken Dialogue Systems
This paper describes a novel multi-stage recognition procedure for deducing the spelling and pronunciation of an open set of names. The overall goal is the automatic acquisition o...
Grace Chung, Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang