At a store of chain retailers in Japan, a manager must select some new products from the list offered by the head office and, at the same time, he must determine which products should be replaced by the new products he selects. For the purpose of supporting such a decision, the authors have...

Purpose – To make a theoretical comparison between two scale‐inspection and warranty policies for weight‐quality, one practical and the other theoretically grounded. Design/methodology/approach – Comparison is made in a Stackelberg game framework considering the consumer's as well as the...

This book introduces new approaches to online scheduling based on a concept of cumulative delay. The cumulative delay is regarded as consolidated information of uncertainties under a dynamic environment in manufacturing and can be collected constantly without much effort at any points in time...