报告主题：具有不同设备和批次需求的租赁系统的容量管理（Capacity Management for A Leasing System with Different Equipment and Batch Demands）

报告时间：6月15日（周四）上午9:30

报告地点：旭日楼306教室

主持人：沈滨 教授

报告人：焦雯 博士

报告简介：

This paper studies the admission and capacity allocation problem for a leasing system with two types of equipment and three kinds of batch demands: elementary-specified, premium-specified, and unspecified demands. The demands arrive following mutually independent Poisson distributions and their rental durations follow a negative exponential distribution. The lessor can admit partially the specified demands with the required type of equipment, and admit partially the unspecified demands with any type of equipment. The objective is to maximize the expected discounted revenue. We formulate this problem as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), prove the antimultimodularity of the value function and characterize the structure of the optimal policy. We show that the optimal policy has a simple structure and is characterized by state-dependent rationing and priority thresholds. Moreover, a solution algorithm is proposed to calculate the optimal policy. We study the impacts of the system state on the optimal policy and find that the optimal policy has limited sensitivity to the system state. Numerical studies are conducted to compare the performances of the optimal policy and two heuristic methods and to get some managerial insights by analysis.  

报告人简介：

焦雯博士自2021年9月起担任埃克塞特大学商学院运营管理高级讲师。在加入埃克塞特之前，焦雯博士是拉夫堡大学的运营管理讲师和香港理工大学的博士后研究员。研究兴趣集中在B2B收入管理，库存管理和容量管理。她是英国科学院Leverhulme小型研究基金的首席研究员，英国运筹学会的早期职业研究人员委员会主席。她的作品发表在《管理科学》、《生产与运营管理》、《运输研究B部分》、《运筹学会杂志》等期刊上。此外，她还是多家期刊的审稿人，包括《生产与运营管理》，《海军后勤研究》，《计算机与运筹学》，《欧米茄》，《交通运输研究B部分》，《交通运输研究E部分》，《电子商务研究与应用》。