Trade-in programs are offered extensively in business-to-business (B2B) markets. The success of such programs depends on well-designed and executed trade-in policies as well as accurate prediction of return flow to support operational decisions. Motivated by a real problem facing a high-tech...

Companies can adopt trade-in and/or leasing to shorten consumers׳ upgrade cycle and gain control over secondary markets. In this paper, we consider a monopolistic manufacturer who offers a technology product to a market consisting of heterogeneous consumers. We focus on an exogenous, stochastic...

Trade-in programs are offered extensively in business-to-business (B2B) markets. The success of such programs depends on accurate prediction of return flow characteristics. Motivated by a real problem facing a high-tech company, this paper first develops a method to analyze data from Return...

Rank aggregation, that is, combining several ranking functions (called base rankers) to get aggregated, usually stronger rankings of a given set of items, is encountered in many disciplines. Most methods in the literature assume that base rankers of interest are equally reliable. It is very...