In this paper, we consider a firm to maximize its profit by choosing a production capacity and determining the production and sales policies for a new product during the lifetime of the product. We extend Bass demand process into more general case including the negative effectiveness of...

Gurnani and Gerchak [H. Gurnani, Y. Gerchak, Coordination in decentralized assembly systems with uncertain component yields, European Journal of Operational Research 176 (2007) 1559-1576] study coordination of a decentralized assembly system in which the demand of the assembler is deterministic...

We look at a Cournot model in which each firm may be unreliable with random capacity, so the total quantity brought into market is uncertain. The Cournot model has a unique pure strategy Nash equilibrium (NE), in which the number of active firms is determined by each firm's production cost and...

In this paper discounted and average Markov decision processes with finite state space and countable action set (semi-infinite MDP for short) are discussed. Without ordinary continuity and compactness conditions, for discounted semi-infinite MDP we have shown that by exploiting the results on...

In this paper weighted singularly perturbed hybrid stochastic systems are discussed. Under some reasonable assumptions, it is shown that there exists a uniformly δ-optimal policy when the perturbation is sufficiently small. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

In this paper we consider the weighted reward Markov decision process, with perturbation. The “weighted reward” refers to appropriately normalized convex combination of the discounted and the long-run average reward criteria. This criterion allows the controller to trade-off short-term costs...

Broadcasting is a fundamental operation in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) whereby a source node transmits a message that is to be disseminated to all the nodes in the network. This paper shows that for several classes of MANETs with distinct topologies, the broadcasting behavior of...

The unique linear density of state around the Dirac points for the honeycomb lattice brings much novel features in strongly correlated models. Here we study the ground-state phase diagram of the Kondo lattice model on the honeycomb lattice at half-filling by using an extended mean-field theory....