Auto-delivery is a subscription model widely employed in supply chains, whereby a supplier delivers products to a buyer (or multiple buyers) according to the buyer's choice of a constant shipping quantity to be delivered at prescheduled dates. The buyer enjoys a discount for the auto-delivery...

Rapid growth in the cloud services market provides tremendous opportunities to cloud providers who have invested heavily in computing capacities but also has led, at time, to low utilization of capacities. To alleviate this problem, some providers have launched a low-priority service with...

We study a two-stage supply chain, where the supplier procures a key component to manufacture a product and the retailer orders from the supplier to meet a price-sensitive demand. As the input price is volatile, the two parties enter into either a spot contract, where the retailer orders just...

Over the last decade, adoption of cloud computing has been accelerating, while firms are struggling to manage their growing cloud spending in the face of demand surges caused by planned or random events including marketing campaigns, new-product introduction, and natural disasters. In general, a...