This paper considers advertising, collection and pricing decisions simultaneously for a closed-loop supplychain(CLSC) with one manufacturer(he) and two retailers(she). A multiplicatively separable new demand function is proposed which influenced by pricing and advertising. In this paper, three well-known scenarios in the game theory including the Nash, Stackelberg and Cooperative games are expl...

The objective of this work is to study the large deflection of geometrically asymmetric metal foam core sandwich beam under transverse loading by a fiat punch. A yield criterion is proposed for geometrically asymmetric metal foam core sandwich structures, and then analytical solution for the large deflection of a fully clamped slender sandwich beam is obtained, in which the interaction of bendi...

In this paper, we consider the finite element modeling of multilayer transmission lines for high-speed digital interconnects. We mainly focused on the modeling of the transmission structures with both cases of symmetric and asymmetric geometries. We specifically designed asymmetric coupled microstrips and four-line symmetric coupled microstrips with a two-layer substrate. We computed the capaci...

This thesis advocates for a physical mechanism which induces significant asymmetric wavetransport in scattering systems –ensuring or inhibiting substantial wave-transmission depending upon the direction of an incident wave. The specific components underpinning this mechanism are active nonlinear-elements with balanced amplification and attenuation. Initially, the validity of this mechanism is d...

DAMPING Rakesh K. Goel SUMMARY This study investigated the effects of neglecting off-diagonal terms of the transformed damping matrix on the seismic response of non-proportionally damped asymmetric-plan systems with the specific aim of identifying the range of system parameters for which this simplification can be used without introducing significant errors in the response. For this purpose, a ...

We address the issue of how software components are affected by the failure of one of them, and the inverse problem of locating the faulty component. Because of the functional form of the incoming link distribution of software dependence network, software is fragile with respect to the failure of a random single component. Locating a faulty component is easy if the failure only affects its near...

Networks can affect a group’s ability to solve a coordination problem. We utilize laboratory experiments to study the conditions under which groups of subjects can solve coordination games. We investigate a variety of different network structures, and we also investigate coordination games with symmetric and asymmetric payoffs. Our results show that network connections facilitate coordination i...

We suggest and demonstrate the concept and design of sectional asymmetric structures which can manipulate the metamaterial absorber's working bandwidth with maintaining the other inherent advantages. As an example, a broadband terahertz perfect absorber is designed to confirm its effectiveness. The absorber's each cell integrates four sectional asymmetric rings, and the entire structure compose...

I study games of coalition formation with open membership where firms form associations in order to decrease their costs before competing on the market. According to previous analyses, only the grand coalition forms at the Nash equilibrium of such games. I show that this result hinges on the assumption of symmetric firms. I therefore introduce asymmetric firms in a game where only two associati...

We present an event structure semantics for contextual nets, an extension of P/T Petri nets where transitions can check for the presence of tokens without consuming them (read-only operations). A basic rôle is played by asymmetric event structures, a generalization of Winskel’s prime event structures where symmetric conflict is replaced by a relation modelling asymmetric conflict or weak causal...