Much interest exists in broadband network services to deliver a variety of products to consumers, such as Internet access, telephony, interactive TV, and video on demand. Due to its cost efficiency, Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) technology is currently being considered by most Telcos and cable...

Collaborative transport creates synergies as it enables efficient use of decentrally operated transport resources. However, extensive collaboration between carriers also comes with vulnerabilities, which can make disruptions very impactful. While the synergies of collaborative transport are...

Collaborative transport creates synergies as it enables efficient use of decentrally operated transport resources. However, extensive collaboration between carriers also comes with vulnerabilities, which can make disruptions very impactful. While the synergies of collaborative transport are...

We show that in general trading networks with bilateral contracts, a suitably adapted chain stability concept (Ostrovsky, 2008) is equivalent to stability (Hatfield and Kominers, 2012; Hatfield et al., 2013) if all agents' preferences are fully substitutable and satisfy the Laws of Aggregate Supply...

The bullwhip effect refers to the amplifcation of demand variation when moving upstream the supply chain. Bullwhip research so far has mainly focused on linear and distributor networks while integrator and more general network types have not been analyzed in detail yet. First, we derive a metric...