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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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14 years 7 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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14 years 9 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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14 years 4 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
14 years 10 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