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MANSCI
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Implications of Renegotiation for Optimal Contract Flexibility and Investment
After entering into supply contracts, firms often later renegotiate the terms of those contracts. For example, firms that obtain market demand information after signing supply c...
Erica L. Plambeck, Terry A. Taylor
ANSOFT
1998
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15 years 6 months ago
Software Engineering Programmes are not Computer Science Programmes
Programmes in “Software Engineering” have become a source of contention in many universities. Computer Science departments, many of which have used that phrase to describe ind...
David Lorge Parnas
TON
2002
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15 years 6 months ago
Optimal retrial and timeout strategies for accessing network resources
The notion of timeout (namely, the maximal time to wait before retrying an action) turns up in many networking contexts, such as packet transmission, connection establishment, etc....
Lavy Libman, Ariel Orda
SAC
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
A biologically inspired generation of virtual characters
A number of techniques for generating geometric models of human head and body are in use nowadays. Models of human characters are useful in computer games, virtual reality, and ma...
Roberto C. Cavalcante Vieira, Creto Augusto Vidal,...
IOR
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Dynamic Supplier Contracts Under Asymmetric Inventory Information
In this paper, we examine a supply chain in which a single supplier sells to a downstream retailer. We consider a multi-period model, with the following sequence of events. In per...
Hao Zhang, Mahesh Nagarajan, Greys Sosic