This paper investigates the pricing and production game in a decentralized assembly system that consists of one assembler and two independent suppliers. One supplier is able to exert the push contract on the assembler so as to transfer all his inventory risk, while the other supplier has to...

This paper considers the inventory management in a VMI programme consisting of a vendor, a retailer and a VMI warehouse near the retailer. Specifically, the vendor is authorised to manage the inventory of the VMI warehouse through (Q, r) policy, and the retailer controls the service level of the...

In this paper, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data from ENVISAT ASAR ascending, descending and ALOS PALSAR ascending orbits are collected to investigate the coseismic displacements of the Mw 6.4 earthquake occurred in Gaize, Tibet on January 9, 2008 and the Mw 5.9 aftershock on January 16, 2008....