The booming on-demand ride-sharing economy induces drivers who do or do not own cars
to provide services on ride-sharing platforms. To meet growing demand, in practice the …

This paper studies the impact of a “buy-online-and-pickup-in-store (BOPS)” channel on
quality, prices, and profits of a manufacturer and a retailer. We analyze a Stackelberg game-…

A fault-tolerant direct torque control (DTC) strategy for six-phase symmetrical winding shifted-phase
60 permanent magnet synchronous motor with arbitrary two opened phases is …

Ride-sharing platforms, as a new travel service, yield substantial benefit by effectively matching
drivers and passengers. We consider ride-sharing platforms that recruit permanent and/…

In this paper, we investigate three commission contracts for a monopoly firm, who acts as a
transaction platform between customers and service providers. The platform provides …

Electric vehicles enjoy not only vigorous promotion in many countries via green license plates
but also state subsidies. This study investigates a traditional combustion-vehicle market …

We consider pricing and product-bundling strategies for two competing platforms with two
groups of agents, customers and sellers (independent content developers). In this paper, two …

Food safety issues are directly related to people’s quality of life, so there is a need to develop
efficient and reliable food contaminants’ detection devices to ensure the safety and quality …

Biosensors can convert the concentration of biological analytes into an electrical signal or
other signals for detection. They are widely used in medical diagnostics, food safety, process …

Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) plays a key role in environmental protection and human health.
Recently, molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2) representative of novel 2D materials has been utilized …