We analyze retail space-exchange problems where two or more retailers exchange their excess retail spaces to improve the utilization of their space resource. We first investigate the two-retailer space exchange problem. In order to entice both retailers with different bargaining powers to...

A new technique is described for operationalizing the bootstrap methodology to estimate the yield curve given any available data set of bond yields. The problem of missing data points is dealt with using symbolic cubic spline interpolation. To make such an approach tractable the computer algebra...

This paper considers a multiple-supplier, single manufacturer assembly supply chain where the suppliers produce components of a short life-cycle product which is assembled by the manufacturer. In this single-period problem the suppliers determine their production quantities and the manufacturer...