Purpose - In this extended abstract, we propose a novel infrastructure in cloud computing environment which assures the data sanitization after the customers decide to delete them. Design - A mechanism with monitoring agents is suggested to watch the data usage over entire life cycle and assure...

The widespread use of the Internet has significantly changed the behavior of homebuyers. Using online real estate agents, homebuyers can rapidly find some modern houses that meet their needs; however, most current online housing systems provide limit features. In particular, existing systems...

Cyberspace is no longer safe. From business organizations to countries, the requirements of information security and assurance have become one of the most important functions to ensure continued operations. The goal of this study is twofold. First, we introduce the information security policy of...

This paper investigates optimal production and selling decisions for a single supplier with two types of customers. Specifically, risk-averse buyers would rather pay higher fixed prices with guaranteed supply contracts whereas risk-prone buyers prefer to secure remaining stocks and pay lower...

In this paper, the phenomenon of the optimal management of requests of service in general networks is formulated as a control problem for a finite number of multiserver loss queues with Markovian routing. This type of problem may arise in a wide range of fields, e.g., manufacturing industries,...

Just-in-time (JIT) trucking service, i.e., arriving at customers within specified time windows, has become the norm for freight carriers in all stages of supply chains. In this paper, a JIT pickup/delivery problem is formulated as a stochastic dynamic traveling salesman problem with time windows...

It has been well recognized that to thoroughly evaluate a firm’s performance, the evaluator must assess not only its past and present records but also future potential. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no data envelopment analysis (DEA)-type models proposed in the literature...