Drawing on social network and network behavior literature, this research examines how students’ network behavior for learning (or educational network behavior) with peers (i.e., horizontal network behavior) and with the instructor (i.e., vertical network behavior) outside class influences...

Online innovation communities allow for a search for novel solutions within a design space bounded by constraints. Past research has focused on the effect of creative constraints on individual projects, but less is known about how constraints affect learning from repeated design submissions and...

Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented and accelerating rate. A pressing issue is how to improve the effectiveness of conservation with limited information and resources available. We develop a Bayes-adaptive POMDP framework to optimize the learning and management of threatened species...

Online 2D irregular bin packing problem (2D-OIBPP) with uncertain demands is a critical challenge in the manufacturing and assembly industry, where a robot is required to place incoming objects within a limited time to maximize overall packing density. The high demands on real-time and...

The modern supply chain must change from cost minimization to innovative approaches while strengthening its resilience to add value across all industries. The main purpose of this study is to identify the impact of Supply chain learning on Supply chain resilience in the Fast-moving Consumer...

In this paper, we formulate a differential game model to investigate firms’ competition in both price and product R&D. The significant features of our research include: (i) incorporating the factor of network effects into the framework of continuous dynamic competition; (ii) considering the...

Traditional conceptions of learning focus on the formal learning that occurs in contexts such as school and higher education. These however form only part of the learning experience for any individual. Indeed for adults, most learning will occur outside formal contexts either informally or...

This chapter provides an overview of entrepreneurship clubs. It charts the development of these organizations, as a form of extracurricular activity. It introduces different forms of entrepreneurship club, such as Junior Achievement and Enactus, and explains how they grew from 1919 to the...

For autonomous vehicles (AVs) to be widely commercialized, they must operate safely. Testing AVs on public roads helps improve their future safety, as it enables AV firms to discover rare and unknown driving scenarios (known as "edge cases"). However, edge cases can trigger AV failures (called...

With the increasing usage of automated guided vehicles on a large scale,the scalability of traditional path planning algorithms are limited in the central control systems. To alleviate the pressure on the system, the agent should be equipped with the ability to make independent decisions. In...