This book develops a modeling framework to analyze the problem of inventory management with alternative delivery times. The general context considered here is that a seller replenishes its inventory in fixed intervals and, between replenishments, allocates the limited inventory to satisfy...

This paper considers a multi-period news-vendor problem with partially observed supply-capacity information which evolves as a Markovian Process. The supply capacity is fully observed by the buyer when the capacity is smaller than the buyer's ordering quantity. Otherwise, the buyer knows that...

We propose a model where customers are classified into two groups: short lead-time customers who require the product immediately and long lead-time customers to whom the supplier may deliver either immediately or in the next cycle. Unmet orders are backlogged with associated costs. Specifically,...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency policiestoward small and large businesses are explored by reviewing administrative,civil judicial, and criminal enforcement proceedings involving the prosecutionof individual, firm, and government violators. An analysis was done of 325 cases involved with...

The reduction of SOx, NOx, and PM can be helpful to the environment and human health. However, due to their potential to cool the atmosphere, the reduction of such emissions may intensify the global warming, creating a seeming dilemma to policy makers. This paper uses the shipping Emission...