In this paper, we study a multi-period stochastic perishable inventory system with multiple demand classes that require products of different ages. The firm orders the product with a positive leadtime and sells it to multiple demand classes, each only accepting products with remaining lifetime...

Motivated by the news that Car2go replaced all of its electric vehicle fleet with gasoline-powered cars starting from 1 May 2016, we examine whether it is optimal to use electric vehicles (EVs) in the car sharing market and investigate the environmental impact of pulling the EVs from the market....

This paper studies a Markovian two-station tandem queueing network with impatient customers. Queueing networks with abandonment are common in many industries, e.g., call centers and healthcare. Therefore, their management has received much attention. The resulting model is a level-dependent...

In this thesis, we study the repair shop scheduling problem(repair-to-stock) and the production/inventory system pricing and production scheduling problem(make-to-stock). For both types of problems, we compare the performance of different scheduling policies. For the make-to-stock type problem,...