Zhou HE

Chinese Academy of Sciences | CAS · School of Economics and Management

Attracting customers in the online-to-offline (O2O) business is increasingly difficult as more competitors are entering the O2O market. To create and maintain sustainable competitive advantage in crowded O2O markets requires optimizing the joint pricing-location decision and understanding customers’ behaviours. To investigate the evolutionary locat...

Private sector participation in municipal solid waste (MSW) management is increasingly being applied in many countries recently. However, it remains a largely unexplored issue that whether different self-interested treatment operators can co-exist in an economically feasible and sustainable manner. To help the policy-makers understand and manage co...

The planar maximal covering location problem (PMCLP) concerns the placement of a given number of facilities anywhere on a plane to maximize coverage. Solving PMCLP requires identifying a candidate locations set (CLS) on the plane before reducing it to the relatively simple maximal covering location problem (MCLP). The techniques for identifying the...

Facing horizontal channel competition in a hierarchical distribution system, independent intermediaries such as wholesalers and retailers are keen to find the optimal location and pricing strategies that enable them to adapt to the increasingly competitive business environment. To help market intermediaries to address their challenges, we propose i...

With the rise of satellite-as-a-service subscriptions as technology improves, our paper examines how satellite operators (SOs) can choose between traditional channels for selling satellites, satellite-as-a-service (SataaS), and dual-channel strategies. In the space supply chain, commercial satellites display several distinct characteristics that di...

Blockchain technology, as a revolutionary technology that has emerged in recent years, holds significant potential for application in supply chain operations. This paper provides a systematic review of blockchain-based supply chain case studies. The existing literature primarily focuses on the food, agriculture, and pharmaceutical sectors, highligh...

The impact of human resource management (HRM) on corporate growth is a crucial research topic, especially for growth-oriented firms. This paper aims to study how different payment policies (such as recruitment and dismissal strategies and payment plans) affect the human resource market system. Based on the HRM characteristics of growth-oriented fir...

The airport flight planning and scheduling (AFPS) process involves many sub-systems in airport management, including flight arrival prediction, flight landing prioritisation, flight route scheduling, flight departure prioritisation and airport big-data planning. Existing literature has mainly focused on advancing the efficiency of specific sub-syst...

Operations and finance are two sides of the same coin. In supply chains, operations management aims to match the supply with demand of material flows, whereas corporate finance seeks to match the supply with demand of monetary flows. With increasing availability of huge amounts of data, operations and finance interfaces in a cycle of material, fina...

This paper examines the past and the future of the interface of operation management and finance with Fintech in supply chain. First, we investigate the evaluation of operation management and finance in supply chain from 2011 to 2021 using CiteSpace. After analyzing all papers retrieved from Web of Science, we find that the number of information an...

Rapidly increasing mobile data traffic have placed a significant burden on mobile Internet networks. Due to limited network capacity, a mobile network is congested when it handles too much data traffic simultaneously. In turn, some customers leave the network, which induces a revenue loss for the mobile service provider. To manage demand and maximi...

The real estate rental market (RERM) is considered to have an important role in the entire real estate market. It refers to a property composed of land and its buildings, including the natural resources that can be rented or leased. Previous researches show that most developed countries have experienced the historical process of passively renting,...

In the digital economy era, the development of a distributed robust economy system has become increasingly important. The blockchain technology can be used to build such a system, but current mainstream consensus protocols are vulnerable to attack, making blockchain systems unsustainable. In this paper, we propose a new Robust Proof of Stake (RPoS)...

There is a significant amount of online human activity which is either clandestine or illicit in nature, and hence where individuals operate under fear of exposure or capture. Yet there is little theoretical understanding of what models best describe the resulting dynamics. Here we attempt to address this gap, by analyzing the evolutionary dynamics...

Preferential attachment is a popular candidate mechanism for generating power-law networks. However, incoming nodes require global information about existing nodes' connectivities before connecting, whereas such information access within real-world networks may be only anisotropic and localized. Here we investigate how anisotropic and localized inf...

Container transportation has developed rapidly in recent years because of the growth of international trade. However, transportation demands along shipping lanes or in different regions are unbalanced and change over time. This high-growth and uncertain operation environment makes empty container capacity management important and challenging. Carri...

In the booming online-to-offline (O2O) food ordering and delivery market, numerous independent restaurants are competing for orders placed by customers via online food ordering platforms. The food quality and location decisions are deemed to be the two principal considerations of restaurants in this emerging market. To investigate the evolutionary...

Trading participators suffer from information disadvantage in China's resale housing market, where brokers are able to distort supply–demand information and thus mislead their clients in price negotiation. In this paper, we propose an agent-based resale model to examine how brokers’ distorted market information affects the market performances. Expe...

With the growing need to guide decision-making in today’s complex managerial environment, researchers of the Operations Research/Management Science community have shown a considerable interest in modelling complex managerial systems using the agent-based modelling and simulation technique. This paper presents an estimation-and-optimisation (ESTOPT)...

There is a significant amount of online human activity which is either clandestine or illicit in nature, and hence where individuals operate under fear of exposure or capture. Yet there is little theoretical understanding of what models best describe the resulting dynamics. Here we address this gap, by analyzing the evolutionary dynamics of the sup...

The preferential attachment (PA) process is a popular theory for explaining network power-law degree distributions. In PA, the probability that a new vertex adds an edge to an existing vertex depends on the connectivity of the target vertex. In real-world networks, however, each vertex may have asymmetric accessibility to information. Here we addre...

Current literature on stochastic dominance assumes utility/loss function to be the same across random variables. However, decision models with inconsistent utility functions have been proposed in the literature. The use of inconsistent loss functions when comparing between two random variables can also be appropriate under other problem settings. I...

A rapid increase in urban population creates major challenges related to urban sprawl, pollution and waste generation, unsustainable production and consumption patterns. These challenges become even more crucial for land-constrained urban territories, such as Singapore and Hong Kong, and require the development of decision-maker support methodologi...

It follows from the law of large numbers that the maximum geometric mean (MGM) portfolio will almost surely outperform other portfolios in the long run under mild conditions. However, from a theoretical perspective, preference for the MGM portfolio is not immediately clear as there exists non-decreasing utility functions where a MGM portfolio does...

A municipal solid waste management system is symbiotic when there exists physical exchange of material or by-products between different treatment units. We propose a mathematical model for studying the interactive behaviour of different waste treatment operators in a symbiotic environment. Each operator is a self-interested entity, who sets his gat...

Illegal dumping has been an issue to be dealt with by the authorities. The incidents distribute across spatial and temporal domains, possibly with recurring patterns. To assist in addressing the issue, these patterns in the form of classification rules can potentially be mined from large datasets collected by the authorities. This research represen...