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Recent Papers

  1. "Optimization of Stochastic, Single-Item Inventory Models with
    Non-Quasiconvex Costs," with Y. Feng,      click here to view the PDF document.     Engg & Information Science.
  2. "A Production-Inventory Problem under an Energy Buy-Back Program," with S. Sethi and H. Zhang. IEEE Trans. on Automation Sci. and Engg, 2007, 395-406.  click here to view the PDF document. 
  3. "Joint Pricing and Inventory Control with Setup Costs and Demand Uncertainty," with Y. Feng, click here to view the PDF document.
  4. "Management of Inventory Replenishment and Available
    Offerings for Goods Sold with Optional Value-Added Packages ," with Y. Feng and J. Ou,  IIE Tran. (2005) (Featured Article in IIE Solutions Magazine).
  5. "Optimal Production and Shutdown Strategy when Supplier Offers Incentives, " with Xiuli Chao.    M&SOM, (2005). 
  6. "Fractional Programming Approach to Two Stochastic Inventory Problems."  EJOR (2005).
  7. "Analysis of a Supply Contract for Coordinating the Newsvendor
    with Price Dependent Demand ," with L. Yao and H. Yan,   click here to view the PDF document.
  8. "On Two Models for Integrated Inventory Replenishment and Temporal Shipment Consolidation ," with T. Wang and T. Z. Xu,   Annals of OR (2005).
  9. " Exact Analysis of Two-Echelon Inventory Systems with Interdependent Demands ," with Y. Feng, (Revised),  click here to view the PDF document. 
  10.   "On the Time-Window Fulfillment Rates in a Single Item, Min-Max Inventory System," with Y. Feng and T. Wang.    IIE Tran. (2005).
  11. "Joint Pricing and Inventory Control in Periodic Review Systems: Optimality and Optimization of (s, S, p) Policies," with Y. Feng.  click here to view a PDF document. 
  12. "Joint Pricing and Inventory Control in Periodic Review Systems - Case of  Loss Sales", with S. Ray and Y. Song.   NRL. 2006.
  13. " Using a control method to mitigate the bullwhip effect," with Stephen Disney.   IJPR (2007), 45(2), 357-368.
  14. "Optimal Control of Selling Channels for an Online Retailer with Cost-Per-Click Payments and Seasonal Products", with Jian Chen and Y.B. Xiao,    POM, 2007, 16 (3), 292-305.. click here to view a PDF document.
  15.  "Value of a Put Option to the Risk-Averse Newsvendor", with M. Parlar,  IIE, 2007, 39, pp481-500.
  16. "A Risk-Averse Newsvendor Model Under CVaR Decision Criterion", with MH Xu and G. Zhang, accepted by OR. click here to view a PDF document(an old version).
 

Recent Grants: 

  1. HK RGC Earmarked Research Grant, 2007-2010: Principal Investigator (PI), Procurement-Inventory Models in the Presence of Commodity Spot Markets and Hedging Instruments. 
  2. HK RGC Earmarked Research Grant, 2006-2008: Principal Investigator (PI), Dynamic Pricing Problems for Seasonal Products with Inventory-Record Inaccuracy: a Revenue Management Approach to Exploring the Value of RFID}. 
  3. HK RGC Earmarked Research Grant, 2005-2008: PI, Weather Risk, Hedging and Operations Management/Decisions.
  4. HK RGC Earmarked Research Grant, 2004-2006: PI, Studies of Combined Segmental-dynamic Pricing and Production/Replenishment Decisions.