The integration of marketing and demand with logistics and inventories (supply side of companies) may cause multiple improvements; it can revolutionize the management of the revenue of rental companies, hotels, and airlines. In this paper, we develop a multi-objective pricing-inventory model for a retailer. Maximizing the retailer's profit and the service level are the objectives, and shorta...

this paper presents a discrete-time single-server finite buffer n threshold policy queue with renewal input and discretemarkovian service process. the server terminates service whenever the system becomes empty, and recommencesservice as soon as the number of waiting customers in the queue is n. we obtain the system-length distributionsat pre-arrival and arbitrary epochs using the supplementary...

This paper presents a discrete-time single-server finite buffer N threshold policy queue with renewal input and discreteMarkovian service process. The server terminates service whenever the system becomes empty, and recommencesservice as soon as the number of waiting customers in the queue is N. We obtain the system-length distributionsat pre-arrival and arbitrary epochs using the supplementary...

in this research, a new control policy for the acceptance sampling problem is introduced. decision is made based on the number of defectives items in an inspected batch. the objective of the model is to find a constant control level that minimizes the total costs, including the cost of rejecting the batch, the cost of inspection and the cost of defective items. the optimization is performed by ...

this paper studies an m/g/1 repairable queueing system with multiple vacations and n-policy, in which the service station is subject to occasional random breakdowns. when the service station breaks down, it is repaired by a repair facility. moreover, the repair facility may fail during the repair period of the service station. the failed repair facility resumes repair after completion of its re...

The secretary problem with uncertain selection, considered by Smith, is generalized to allow for the rejection probability to be rank-dependent. That is, if an offer of employment is given to the j-th best applicant, she rejects it with probability q j , 1 < j <, n (n is the number of applicants to appear). The optimality equations can be derived with the objective of maximizing the probability...

In the markdown case, the firm has to consecutively charge the sequence of decreasing prices p̄K , p̄K−1, ..., p̄0. Again, we aim at showing the optimality of a threshold policy τ = (τk n | k = 1, 2, ...,K, n = 1, 2, ..., N) ∈ (∆N )K . Under this policy, the firm should lower its price from p̄k to p̄k−1 when the threshold time τk n corresponding to its current inventory level n is about to be passed...

A ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption scheme allows that an encrypter assigns a decryption policy to ciphertexts. Any user will be able to decrypt if and only if a set of attributes (his private key) satisfy the assigned decryption policy. In this paper we first propose a new chosen ciphertext secure ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption scheme with constant-size ciphertext and ...

  A novel optimal single machine replacement policy using a single as well as a two-stage decision making process is proposed based on the quality of items produced. In a stage of this policy, if the number of defective items in a sample of produced items is more than an upper threshold, the machine is replaced. However, the machine is not replaced if the number of defective items is less than ...