I is common for a retailer to sell products from competing manufacturers. How then should the firms manage their contract negotiations? The supply chain coordination literature focuses either on a single manufacturer selling to a single retailer or one manufacturer selling to many (possibly competing) retailers. We find that some key conclusions from those market structures do not apply in our ...

In this paper, we identify an error in the proof of Theorem 1 in the paper Xia, L., Zhao, Q., and Jia, Q.S., “A Structure Property of Optimal Policies for Maintenance Problems with Safety-Critical Components”, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2008, 5(3): 519-531. Theorem 1 is the most important contribution of the above paper, which shows the optimality of the so-called ...

This paper presents the results of a literature search for publications containing failure rates and repair times, based on operational experience, for distribution system components that are critical to the reliability of a distribution system. Furthermore, component failure rates found are compared with the conclusions drawn from a previously conducted literature search.