Problem Definition: "Slugging," or casual carpooling, refers to the commuting practice of drivers picking up passengers at designated locations and offering them a free ride in order to qualify for high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) lanes. Academic/Practical Relevance: It is estimated that tens of...

This paper uses hedonic modeling to test the effects of age, both actual and effective, on the value of historic properties within a nationally recognized historic district. Findings show that there is a critical point where the value of historic properties is affected by actual age and the...

China's electricity sector has undergone several rounds of reforms since 1985, with which significant changes have been made. This paper provides a brief history of the archived and ongoing key policies for market reforms in China and Jiangsu Province. The market success and failure against this...

Micro-nano heterogeneous oxides have received extensive attention due to their distinctive physicochemical properties. However, it is a challenge to prepare hierarchical structured metal oxide nanomaterials with abundant heterogeneous interfaces in a controllable way. In this work, the effective...

Nanostructured rare earth cuprates have recently attracted extensive attention as a promising non-noble metal electrocatalyst. However, they are rarely used to construct electrochemical sensors, even no report on important hydrogen peroxide. Accordingly, simple sol-gel method plus air...

The equilibrium joining probabilities for a single primary-user (PU) and secondary-users (SUs) in the case of no-information, and the equilibrium Nash balance thresholds for PU and SUs to join the system in the cases of partial-information and full-information observed by PU and SUs are...

Problem definition: Price promotion is an efficient way to gain the market share due to the fact that all consumers are price sensitive. Even so, consumers are also sensitive to the service satisfaction, e.g., logistic service. Fierce price promotion can boost demand, but also makes the system...

Problem Definition: Customers arriving at a service provider are faced with a queue. On joining the queue, they get to observe the service speed while waiting in the queue. They renege if the updated wait times are too long. When and how should a revenue-maximizing service provider share service...

We study a three-server queueing system where servers are heterogeneous in terms of their service speed. The goal of the system operator is to find an optimal routing strategy, which assigns each customer to a server, in order to minimize all customers' expected sojourn time in the system. Using...

Pay-for-priority is a common practice in congestion-prone service systems. In many applications, customers are allowed to pay and upgrade to priority at any time of their stay in the queue, even if they choose not to do so initially. However, this dynamic in-queue priority-purchasing behavior of...