Recent developments in mobile technologies and associated economies of scale via mature manufacturing processes have made possible the construction of pervasive systems in specifi...
George Roussos, Panos Kourouthanasis, Eugene A. Gr...
Consider a retailer that rents products to customers for a pre-specified rental duration. By considering the dynamics of uncertain rental demand and return processes, we first pre...
Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. Although shopping agents provide convenience for consume...
Internet companies extensively use the practice of drop-shipping, where the wholesaler stocks and owns the inventory and ships products directly to customers at retailers' re...
Models to understand the impact of management practices on retail performance are often simplistic and assume low levels of noise and linearity. Of course, in real-life, retail op...
Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin, Helen Celia, Chri...