The rise of the Internet economy can be attributed to the worldwide spread of Internetaccess points and the rapid pace of ICT development (information and communicationtechnology), which together induced cross-border networking between privatehouseholds, enterprises and entire markets [Wirt01,...

This work is concerned with the conduct of MCDM by intelligent agents trading commodities in ALNs. These agents consider trustworthiness in their course of negotiation and select offers with respect to product price and seller reputation.

This work is concerned with the conduct of MCDM by intelligent agents trading commodities in ALNs. These agents consider trustworthiness in their course of negotiation and select offers with respect to product price and seller reputation.

The European reference network for critical infrastructure protection (Erncip) has a Thematic Group for Radiological and Nuclear Threats to Critical Infrastructure (RN thematic group). It produced, in its 2014 work programme, a report on radiological and nuclear information sharing between the...

Strengthening chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) security in the European Union (EU) reduces the threat of and damage from CBRNE incidents. One of the main issues facing the EU security industry is its highly fragmented nature, exhibiting a lack of standardisation...

In this paper we empirically assess bankruptcy as a legal process. We examine a comprehensive reform to corporate bankruptcy law in Mexico, which streamlined the legal process and limits on litigation. Then we outline the ways in which bankruptcy law design affect a series of outcome variables....

This dissertation consists of two distinct lines of research e orts. Chapter 2 proposes a general methodology to seek robust solution to multi-stage stochastic optimization problems. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 all deal with models that arise from inventory management and dynamic pricing. Chapter 2...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful types of artificial neural networks (ANNs) that use several hidden layers. They have recently gained considerable attention in the speech transcription and image recognition community (Krizhevsky et al., 2012) for their superior predictive properties...

The single-item stochastic lot-sizing problem is to find an inventory replenishment policy in the presence of a stochastic demand under periodic review and finite time horizon. The computational intractability of computing an optimal policy is widely believed and therefore approximation...

Retailers procure inventory by placing purchase orders (POs) with suppliers. POs specify product price, quantity, quality, delivery times, and other aspects of the fulfillment process, such as carton labeling requirements and packaging formats. When servicing an order, a supplier may fail to...