Advances in automation for electronic commerce require improved understanding and formalization of the objects, processes, and policies of commerce itself. These include business objects such as bills of lading and contracts; processes such as workflows and trade procedures; and policies...

Use of optimization models in science and policy applications is often problematic because the best available models are very inaccurate representations of the originating problems. Such is the case with electoral redistricting models, for which there exist no generally accepted measures of...

The Cournot model makes assumptions about the knowledge of the players, which can lead to counterintuitive results when extending the basic model. Closed-loop equilibria and models with consistent conjectural variations are problematic in that they reduce or eliminate economic rents while the...

With rising obesity and concern about access to healthy and nutritious food in the United States, research on food deserts has extended over the last years. For identifying the areas whose residents are most susceptible to the consequences of living in a food desert and thus most are the most...