Jiuh-Biing Sheu

• PhD
• Chair Professor at National Taiwan University

When a disaster strikes (e.g., COVID-19), we observe "forward" buying from the retailers and "reactionary" buying from the consumers. These two buying activities are intricately intertwined with the retailer in the middle. In response to the disaster, the retailers buy forward on the upstream side, and the consumers on the downstream engage their r...

This study presents a comprehensive decision-making framework that employs eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)-based methods to improve proactive road transport safety management, which is critical for global supply chain networks. The framework offers explainable predictions as well as suggestions pertaining to the near-future digitization o...

Mobile-rack warehouses have become increasingly popular in online retail due to their efficient order-picking capabilities. They adopt the parts-to-picker mode for order picking, while also introducing a new item storage assignment problem (ISAP). This problem involves determining both the categories and quantities of items assigned to each rack, w...

Introducing a new product into a retail assortment presents significant challenges for inventory planning, particularly when an existing product is nearing the end of its life cycle. These challenges are amplified by fluctuating daily demand and the need for optimal replenishment strategies. Our study addresses these challenges through a system dyn...

The incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) and robust optimization methods for the planning and design of relief logistics networks under relief demand–supply uncertainty appears promising for intelligent disaster management (IDM). This research proposes a data-driven hybrid scenario-based robust (SBR) method for a mixed integer second-order...

Global pandemics restrict long‐haul mobility and international trade. To restore air traffic, a policy named “travel bubble” was implemented during the recent COVID‐19 pandemic, which seeks to re‐establish air connections among specific countries by permitting unrestricted passenger travel without mandatory quarantine upon arrival. However, travel...

Identifying and characterizing post-disaster isolated areas are critical to the success of large-scale disaster management. A post-disaster isolated area (PDIA) refers to an area that can hardly be reached because of the destruction of traffic networks amid a disaster. Lacking relief and medical resources also inflicts psychological impacts on vuln...

E-commerce companies are increasingly facing serious challenges in their supply chains during order fulfillment, as warehouses must simultaneously handle regular and priority (termed as prime) customer orders (COs). Motivated by the concerns of parts-to-picker warehouse operators’ need for efficient order picking systems accommodating both prime an...

Nowadays, online community group-buying of fresh-food products has been gradually welcomed by the public, particularly amid COVID-19 outbreaks. Due to the concern about quality of fresh food, consumers play a central role in shaping the right fresh-food logistics distribution strategy. Rooted in consumer psychology and behavior theories, this paper...

A new generation of the e-bike sharing system (EBSS) is emerging, where the e-bikes are dockless but need to be parked in designated zones defined by electric fences. The operation of the EBSS relies on the efficient swapping of batteries, in addition to e-bike rebalancing. The replaced power-deficient batteries can be charged in a central depot or...

In the digital era, third-party food delivery operations are very popular all around the world. However, to achieve a sustainable operation for food delivery businesses is a challenging issue. Motivated by the fact that there is a lack of consolidated view towards the topic in the literature, we conduct a systematic literature review to identify ho...

This article considers supply chain competition in which two symmetric manufacturers compete in both the new and remanufactured products markets. To engage in remanufacturing, the two competing manufacturers must appropriately determine their remanufacturing capability and design new products to facilitate their competition in remanufacturing. This...

Today, ride-hailing platform operations are popular. Facing pandemics (e.g., COVID-19) some customers feel unsafe for the ride-hailing service and possess a “safety risk-averse” (SRA) attitude. The proportion of this type of SRA customers is unfortunately unknown, which makes it difficult for the ride-hailing platform to decide its optimal service...

This work addresses the issue of intelligent robot-human coordinated parts-to-picker order fulfillment carried out in a human-friendly manner. One unique feature of the proposed approach involves integrating a real-time data-driven stochastic-dynamic model with a fatigue accumulation function. The optimal solutions help achieve coordination between...

This study introduces a new type of supply contract, the quadratic quantity discount contract, whose average transfer payment is a quadratic function. Thus, both the total and average quantity discounts increase nonlinearly in order quantity, unlike the typical linear quantity discount contract, whose total discount is nonlinear but average payment...

The cabin crew pairing problem is one of the major challenges faced by airlines. Traditionally, multi-class cabin crews are scheduled on a team basis separated by aircraft types (families) as cockpit crews. However, the manpower requirements for cabin crew across aircraft types (families) are heterogeneous, which cannot be handled by the team sched...

Emergency logistics management has evolved as a prominent international theme due to multiple global disasters in the last couple of decades. Although such global disasters have significantly raised humanitarian support in relief supply and distribution, emergency logistics remain critical during and after a disaster. Hence, it is critical to ensur...

Crisis-induced vaccine supply chain management has recently drawn attention to the importance of immediate responses to a crisis (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic). This study develops a queuing model for a crisis-induced vaccine supply chain to ensure efficient coordination and distribution of different COVID-19 vaccine types to people with various lev...

As a new social e-commerce model, online community group-buying of perishable products has been under examined. This paper addresses a real-world delivery problem faced in common by an online community group-buying operators, in which operators may suffer revenue loss from product deterioration during delivery. Since delivery quantities of candidat...

This article investigates the impact of intercompetitor licensing between an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and an independent remanufacturer (IR) on market competition between new and remanufactured products, the IR's remanufacturing strategy, and the IR's optimal quality choice for remanufactured products. In the considered supply chain, t...

The global chip shortage and COVID-19 outbreaks have led to dire circumstances for the automobile and other industries. At the center is a world-dominant semiconductor manufacturing firm with the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry. This paper investigates potential solutions for its capacity reallocation under cross-government interven...

National strategies have a large influence on the development of ports, especially gateway ports. The Bohai Rim is facing a new round of China's national strategies. It could be predicted that the statuses of the regional gateway ports in the international liner shipping network would change. In this paper, AIS data are adopted to identify the gate...

This article aims to address the issue of international sustainable supply chain management under bilateral governments’ policy intervention. The dynamic and stochastic features of bilateral governments’ policy, focusing on collaboration and power asymmetry, are analytically considered. Specifically, various cross-governmental interaction factors,...

This work addresses the issue of intelligent robot-human coordinated parts-to-picker order fulfillment, which enables the agile distribution of mobile racks that are carried by robots to human pickers in a human-friendly manner. One unique feature of the proposed approach to such fulfillment involves integrating a real-time data-driven stochastic-d...

Disasters affect consumers and retailers selling necessities in the market both physically and psychologically. Motivated by various real world scenarios of meteorological disasters such as tropical cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons caused by global warming, we explore in this article the retail market recovery challenge via studying disaster-indu...

This paper studies the vulnerability of the worldwide air transportation network (WATN) during a global catastrophe such as COVID-19. Considering the WATN as a weighted network, many airport connections could be completely or partially disrupted during such extreme events. However, it is found that existing weighted metrics cannot reflect the impac...

This paper studies the spatiotemporal variation of the worldwide air transportation network (WATN) induced by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The variations are captured from four perspectives: passenger throughput, network connectivity, airport centrality, and international connections. Further, this work also considers both global and local connec...

Due to the supply chain globalization, technology-oriented original equipment manufacturers are focusing on their core competencies by outsourcing the production to contract manufacturers. Many contract manufacturers also engage in remanufacturing and provide high quality remanufactured products in the market posing competition to the new products....

This study combines the concepts of product–service system and platform operations involving network externality between consumers and charging stations in the electric vehicle (EV) context. We call this unique aspect of EVs the product-service platform (PSP). We identify four main players (manufacturer, charging service provider, government, and c...

We address how to manage extended supply chains that lie beyond the first‐tier suppliers. The first‐tier suppliers have their suppliers who provide them with goods or services. While lower‐tier suppliers are often not an explicit concern of the focal firm, the firm's performance not only depends on the performance of its first‐tier suppliers, but a...

As the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) takes root, the Air Transportation Network (ATN) is gaining prominence, as evidenced by the Air Silk Road Initiative proposed in 2017. However, the ATN of the BRI countries and its integration with maritime and rail transport have not been studied. This paper analyzes the network structure of the ATN of the BRI...

Intelligent part‐to‐picker systems are spreading across a broad range of industries as preferred solutions for agile order fulfillment, wherein mobile racks are carried by robots and moved to stations where human pickers can pick items from them. Such systems raise the challenge of designing good work schedules for human pickers; they also give ris...

This paper investigates how retailers' fairness concerns affect cooperative relationships in a three-party sustainable supply chain (TSSC) and how to coordinate such a supply chain when the degree of fairness concern is treated as an interval. Utilizing the Nash equilibrium strategy, this study seeks equilibrium solutions and profits under five non...

To facilitate more efficient and environmentally-friendly order picking operations, this study explores the optimal storage assignment policy in the Kiva mobile fulfilment system. First, temporal association analysis and a clustering approach are employed to identify highly correlated items to be stored in the same rack. Next, in order to avoid AGV...

Disasters affect retailers selling necessities in a market and consumers both physically and psychologically. Motivated by various real world scenarios of slow-onset disasters such as the recent coronavirus outbreak, this paper investigates the retail market recovery via studying disaster-induced proactive hoarding and consumer precautionary buying...

This paper presents a multi-methodological approach to analyzing household evacuation route choice behavior and related decision-making for mass evacuation planning and management in disaster management. Specifically, the proposed multi-methodological approach integrates a syncretic risk perception conceptual model with a household-based group util...

Forthcoming in Transportation Research Part B. Abstract: In global supply chains, high uncertainty coming from liner shipping forces manufacturers who commit to on-time delivery to face great losses from tardiness or earliness. To find a reliable operational solution for shipment assignment, realizing the trade-off between the operations cost and r...

This paper aims to address the issue of international sustainable supply chain management under bilateral governments' policy intervention. The dynamic and stochastic characteristics of bilateral governments' policy of collaboration and power asymmetry are considered in analytical modeling and analysis. Specifically, various cross-governmental inte...

This paper investigates the optimal supply chain integration strategy for the manufacturer in a stylised dual-channel closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) consisting of one manufacturer, one retailer, and one recycler. As the leader, the manufacturer intends to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of its supply chain by integrating one of the othe...

The issue of collaborative profit allocation in a coalition of enterprises appears important in cooperative games, and arises frequently in the logistics service industry. However, incomplete information usually exists in logistics enterprise coalitions. Therefore, some eminent point-valued solutions of cooperative games appear powerless, such as t...

The efficiency of emergency responses is at the heart of post-disaster rescue routing problems. Previous rescue models address the efficiency issue primarily by minimizing the total travel time, while not taking into account other significant factors in the rescue process, such as the number of affected people and the degree of building damage. To...

Organ allocation is the most important decision amongst organ transplantation decisions thanks to the high demand of organs. This research develops a possibilistic programming model for a liver transportation and allocation problem considering medical uncertainty and tradeoff between quality metrics, namely efficiency and equity. The model maximize...

This work develops a novel methodology for investigating dynamic evacuation route switching behavior and its influence on evacuation traffic assignment considering evacuees’ intuitionistic fuzzy perception and cognition of multitype multiattribute real‐time variable message sign (VMS) information. The methodology has three distinctive features. Fir...

This study aims to address the issue of disaster-induced speculative hoarding (DISH) behavior that might co-exist in the wholesalers and retailers, which clarify the antecedents and suggested solutions for supply chain disruption risks. Drawing on human psychology and social cognition theory, the study provides a conceptual framework that reflects...

Some sub-coalitions can not be formed or fail to satisfy the superadditivity in many realistic cooperative transferable utility (TU) games, which particularly exists in the logistics service industry. To exploit some novel solutions for addressing these TU games, we firstly propose again the equal surplus division value based on the least square me...

The Chinese government is offering subsidies to promote the recently developed China-Europe rail freight corridor under its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Despite significant subsidies, the rail mode (China Railway Express) continues to struggle with low load factor. Accordingly, a competition model (rail vs. maritime) grounded on game-theoretic t...

This paper considers a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) structure in which a manufacturer allows a retailer and a third-party remanufacturer to sell and remanufacture his products, respectively. Given the retailer's distributional fairness concerns, we investigate the optimal/equilibrium decisions and profits under five non-cooperative and cooperati...

Morning commuting trips commonly involve a number of transportation modes and departure times. This study extends the standard bottleneck model by considering both regular and shared autonomous vehicles with and without parking space constraint, taking into account the travel time-dependent fuel cost that is associated with each vehicle. In this st...

Firms usually offer trade-in programs to entice consumers to purchase next generation products. By considering the purchase behavior of both myopic consumers and strategic consumers, we propose a game-theoretic analytical model to determine the optimal price of the next generation products and the optimal trade-in rebate. We find that firm’s optima...

This study proposes a research model to address the causal relationships among regime intervention, supplier hoarding intention and its antecedents in a post-disaster grain supply chain. We argue that the regime intervention can moderate the relationship among supplier hoarding intention, supplier's belief of future earnings, and supplier's attitud...

This work proposes a two-stage transport flow model to analyse the dynamics associated with the cross-border freight transport flows induced by the cross-governmental policy intervention. The stage-1 framework is modeled using a game profile based on cross-governmental interaction, followed by the stage-2 conducted using the spatial interaction app...

This paper focuses on the overall handling efficiency and the system’s stability of container terminals with double cycling. A closed queuing network is used to model terminal operations, and theoretical upper and lower bounds of the system performance is obtained to show the maximum service availability of the terminals. The generally distributed...

Nowadays, consumers play a central role in shaping the right retailing strategy. Motivated by the popularity of trade-in-for-upgrade (TIFU) programs in consumer electronics industries, this study adopts a multi-methodological approach to comprehensively explore TIFU-related behavioral pricing and market competition challenges. Grounded upon consume...

This paper investigates the potential of Belt and Road economic corridors to serve as China-Europe trading route alternatives. By constructing a new Route Utility Function considering cost, environmental impact, mode reliability & security, transit time, and infrastructure reliability, we demonstrate the remarkable advantages of the corridors over...

This paper proposes a novel stochastic mathematical framework to investigate the connectivity of road networks impacted by earthquakes. The concepts of “global connectivity” and “local connectivity” are defined and evaluated using percolation theory. Specifically, global connectivity measures the extent to which the whole network is connected, and...

A multi-objective linear program is formulated for systematically minimizing aggregate logistics costs, including economic costs (debris transportation and sweeping, and urgent recruitment of related trucks and people), traffic impacts (blockage and congestion caused by debris removal) and psychological impacts (perceived by communities) in post-st...

To analyse the hinterland patterns of the CHINA RAILWAY Express (CR express) in China under the Belt and Road Initiative, this paper first reviews the development stages of the CR express. Second, 5 typical CR express routes are examined to comparatively analyse the CR express and seaborne container shipping from the perspective of freight cost str...

In this paper, the most critical relief services are considered, including the transportation of injured people to hospitals, the transportation of evacuees from affected areas to shelters, and the supply of required relief commodities to these evacuees. To provide these services effectively, a multi-objective mathematical programming model for loc...

This paper concerns the generation of a priori routes for a fleet of vehicles that pick up and deliver items with stochastic demands. A failure-specific cooperative recourse strategy is proposed to explore a risk pooling mechanism for routing in the context of simultaneous pickup and delivery with stochastic demands. By defining complete failure an...

Under the coexistence of “trade old for new” (TON) and “trade old for remanufactured” (TOR) programs, we study a firm’s optimal pricing decisions and identify the thresholds that determine whether the firm should offer TON and TOR simultaneously. The result shows that adopting two kinds of trade-ins simultaneously does not necessarily benefit the f...

This work presents a multi-methodological approach to address the dynamic challenges that underlie the problem of international logistic network reconfiguration induced by the one belt-one road (OBOR) initiative of the Chinese government. Hence, to minimize the negative externalities induced by the participating nations in the OBOR initiative, that...

This study examines the effect of market uncertainty and consumer rationality on product strategy when a company evaluates its entry into the green market. The risk in launching a green product is high because consumers may not be as environmentally conscious as they claim to be. This study develops a composite condition consisting of preference un...

This study deals with the large-scale transnational high-speed railway construction evaluation problem, which is a major issue in implementing the Belt and Road (B&R) initiative. We proposed a method for the selection of the most urgent need for transnational high-speed railway construction in the B&R region, which was tested on massive experimenta...

This paper investigates an effectiveness problem in the enactment of environmental policies aimed at profitless recycling of economically-disadvantaged recycled materials (EDRMs). After thorough analysis, a policy instrument has been proposed. The arguments are established from a closed-loop supply chain model in a multiplayer hierarchical Stackelb...

Robustness measures a system's ability of being insensitive to disturbances. Previous studies assessed the robustness of transportation networks to a single disturbance without considering simultaneously happening multiple events. The purpose of this article is to address this problem and propose a new framework to assess the robustness of an urban...

This work presents a multi-methodological approach to address the dynamic and stochastic challenges that underlie the problem of international logistic network reconfiguration induced by the One Belt-One Road initiative. A spatial-temporal logistics interaction model integrated with Markov chain is proposed to forecast time-varying logistic distrib...

Rural transportation management plays a critical role in the sustainable future of human society. Two emerging challenges faced by rural communities today are cost control and equity due to the increasing demand and limited operations resources available and the need to deal with the inevitable tradeoffs among multiple objectives and criteria. In t...

Global supply chains are more than ever under threat of major disruptions caused by devastating natural and man-made disasters as well as recurrent interruptions caused by variations in supply and demand. This paper presents a hybrid robust-stochastic optimization model and a Lagrangian relaxation solution method for designing a supply chain resili...

After a disaster, a huge number of homeless victims should be evacuated from disaster sites to temporary shelters. However, because the evacuation capacity is insufficient, victims must be evacuated in batches and some of them must wait for evacuation at disaster sites; even the victims who have been evacuated to shelters must wait for resources, b...

In the considered automated container terminal (ACT) that is designed for Shanghai Yangsha Terminal, two automated stacking cranes (ASCs) are configured for each block and they interact with automated lifting vehicles (ALVs) at the two ends of a block individually. To increase the capacity, container yards with multiple rows of blocks perpendicular...