The optimization policy of the purchase price and the profit under vendor managed inventory (VMI) is studied. For a salable product, supply chain mode of VMI is established, which is based on deterministic demand, having initial stock and having stock-out cost. With the further analysis of the mode,...

The problem of constructing global view of heterogeneous information sources for information sharing is becoming more and more important due to the availability of multiple information sources within the virtual organization. Global view is defined to provide a unified representation of the informat...

In this paper, we introduce a combinatorial auction-based market model to enable Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to satisfy complex user requirements collaboratively, where the CSPs are connected in a social network and communication costs among them cannot be ignored. However, in many situations CSP...

eCRM ties customer relationship management with e-business. Very often, eCRM is interfaced with other information systems to form a seamless integration and interchange of information both inside and outside an organization-a work flow management system. This integration of business partners, suppli...

A household satisfaction index (HSI) model based on the American customer satisfaction index (ACSI) model was fit to the housing industry in China and used with the software LISREL to measure the HSI in Beijing. Specifically, the empirical study analyzes the HSI of low-priced housing in Beijing. The...