The optimal control problem of determining advertising efforts for a seasonal good in a heterogeneous market is considered. We characterize optimal advertising exposures under different conditions: the general situation in which several wide-spectrum media are available, under the assumption of...

The objective of the following paper is to clearly outline the types of Manufacturing Planning and Control systems (MPC) that have characterized the last hundred years, but which are affected, in terms of functionality, the characteristics of the contexts and the decades in which they were...

This paper proposes a simple procedure, in order to aggregate a nite number of real nonnegative values into a unique indicator. Possible applications of this tool can be found in social sciences, including demography, sociology, etc. In particular, the indicator may represent a generalized mean,...

The implementation of Revenue Management (RM) techniques in non profit performing arts organizations presents new challenges compared to other sectors, such as transportion or hospitality industries, in which these techniques are more consolidated. Indeed, performing arts organizations are...

We consider some particular cases of the general problem which consists of stating if a shift vector of m elements corresponds to a permutation of the same number of objects. Shifts are defined as the steps each element in a given permutation must perform in order to reach its natural position,...

In this paper, we study the single-item dynamic lot-sizing problem in an environment characterizedby stochastic demand and lead times. A recent heuristic called Demand Driven MRP,widely implemented using modern ERP systems, proposes an algorithm that is will effectivelytackle this problem. Our...