The share of gross domestic product from the service industry reflects the competitiveness of
a nation; the service industry in the USA accounts for around 80% of its gross domestic …

Newsvendor models are widely used in the literature, and usually based upon the
assumption of risk neutrality. This paper uses loss aversion to model manager's decision …

Consignment contract with revenue sharing has been widely applied in many industries and
is especially popular in on-line marketplaces. In this paper we consider a supply chain with …

In recent years, various metrics have been developed for measuring the behavioral similarity
of states in probabilistic transition systems [J. Desharnais et al., Proceedings of …

Omni-channel retailing has become increasingly popular among retailers. Thus, whether it is
profitable to implement omni-channel operations is regarded as an important question for …

In-flight caterers are faced with an immense challenge of catering for each passenger on-
board a flight without knowing the flight's final passenger load or the meal preferences of its …

On-demand meal ordering on high-speed railway is an emerging on-demand service that is
becoming increasingly popular. One key challenge about this service is how to design the …

The paper studies the combined problem of pricing and ordering for a perishable product
supply chain with one supplier and one retailer in a finite horizon. The lifetime of the product …

This paper attempts to optimize the flow patterns in a perishable food supply chain network
for a high-speed rail catering service. The proposed variational inequality models describe …

An emerging task in catering services for high-speed railways (CSHR) is to design a
distribution system for the delivery of high-quality perishable food products to trains in need …