As live streaming commerce has received increasing attention, more businesses have adopted it as a new marketing channel and employ broadcasters to promote their products/brands. When recommending products to consumers (viewers), broadcasters showcase various characteristics that may affect the...

By integrating the literature on institutional investors with that on seasoned equity offerings (SEOs), this paper investigates the role played by mutual funds around SEO announcements in China. To the extent that shareholdings already held by mutual funds in a firm prior to the firm's SEO...

In the liner shipping industry, if a shipper wants to transport its cargo by container ships, it first needs to contact a carrier to book container slots based on the estimated transportation demand. However, one problem in the booking process is that the actual demand is uncertain, resulting in...

In several transportation systems, vehicles can choose where to meet customers rather than stopping in fixed locations. This added flexibility, however, requires coordination between vehicles and customers that adds complexity to routing operations. This paper develops scalable algorithms to...

Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a water-soluble synthetic polymer, is one of the most widely distributed exotic particles in nature. It can cause serious environmental pollution but is often overlooked due to inherent invisibility. To achieve efficient degradation of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) in...