The recent years have seen the emergence and proliferation of online platforms that serve as an intermediation to connect demand and supply, ranging from business-to-business (B2B) platforms connecting buyers and sellers to peer-to-peer labor platforms connecting customers and service providers...

How does a search engine company decide which advertisements to display for each query to maximize its revenue? This turns out to be a generalization of the online bipartite matching problem. In this paper, search engines decide the strategy to allocate resources with an advertiser credibility...

Chinese pharmaceutical market value is about USD 110 billion in 2009, and it has become the world’s second largest market. Chinese pharmaceutical firms are becoming a growing player in global pharmaceutical chains. In this paper, sample firms are selected and surveyed with a focus on...

Recently spectral perturbations, involving eigenvalue and eigenvector perturbations, which have attracted more attentions than conventional topological perturbations, are used to analyze and promote the robustness of complex networks. However, to the best of our knowledge, the study of...