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Houmin Yan

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business

Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

Kowloon

Hong Kong

  • City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business

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Scholarly Papers (17)

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1.

On Price Elasticities in the Presence of Network Effects

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2015
Zhiyuan Chen, Xiaoying Liang, Lei Xie and Houmin Yan
Wuhan University - School of Economics and Management, City University of Hong Kong - Department of Management Sciences, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - School of International Business Administration and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business
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cross-price elasticity, own-price elasticity, network effects, substitutes

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Differentiated Network Effects: The Case of Daily-Deal Platforms

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2016
Xiaoying Liang, Houmin Yan and Quan Yuan
City University of Hong Kong - Department of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business and Wuhan University - School of Economics and Management
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two-sided market, daily-deal platform, equilibrium, pricing

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Purchase Contract Management with Demand Forecast Updates

IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics, 37(8), August 2005, 775-785
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 May 2020 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Hongyan Huang, Suresh Sethi and Houmin Yan
Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business
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Operation Management, Supply Chain Management, Management, Operations Research, purchase contract, Dynamic Analysis, Production Management, Business Economics, Stochastic and Dynamic Games, Optimization Techniques

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Profit Allocation, Decision Sequence and Compliance Aspects of Coordinating Contracts: A Retrospect

Production and Operations Management, 28, 2019, pp. 1222-1237
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Jun 2020
Meng Lu, Suresh Sethi, Yangyang Xie and Houmin Yan
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, International Institute of Finance, School of ManagementUniversity of Science and Technology of China and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business
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coordinating contract classification; contract design; profit allocation; decision sequence; compliance regime

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Optimal Production Planning in a Multi-Product Stochastic Manufacturing System with Long-Run Average Cost

Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, 8, 1998, 37-54
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 May 2020
Suresh Sethi, Wulin Suo, Michael I. Taksar and Houmin Yan
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, Queen's University - Smith School of Business, University of Missouri at Columbia - Department of Mathematics (Deceased) and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business
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Production planning, stochastic dynamic programming, vanishing discount approach, optimal control, long-run average cost

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Addendum to “Coordination of Supply Chains with Risk-Averse Agents” by Gan, Sethi, and Yan (2004)

Innovative Schemes for Supply Chain Coordination Under Uncertainty, T.-M. Choi and T.C. Edwin Cheng (Eds.), Springer, 2011, 3-37
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 28 Apr 2020
Xianghua Gan, Suresh Sethi and Houmin Yan
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) - School of Business Administration, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business
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Supply Chain Management; Risk Aversion; Pareto-Optimality; Coordination; Nash Bargaining

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Using Simulation to Test the Robustness of Various Existing Production Control Policies

Proceedings of the 1991 Winter Simulation Conference, B. L. Nelson, W. D. Kelton and G. M. Clark (Eds.), 1991, 261-269
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 06 May 2020
Sheldon Lou, Houmin Yan, Suresh Sethi, Anne Gardel and Prabhat Deosthali
Independent, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Production Control, Simulation Model

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Turnpike Set Analysis in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems with Long-Run Average Cost

Optimal Control and Partial Differential Equations in Honour of Professor Alain Bensoussan’s 60th Birthday, J.L. Menaldi, E. Rofman, and A. Sulem (Eds.), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2001, 414-423
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 05 Jun 2020
Suresh Sethi, Houmin Yan, Hanqin Zhang and Qing Zhang
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business, Institute of Applied Mathematics Academia Sinica and Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia
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Stochastic production planning; turnpike set; dynamic programming; long-run average cost

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Inventory Commitment and Prioritized Backlogging Clearance with Alternative Delivery Lead Times

Production and Operations Management, 23(7), 2014, 1227–1242
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Apr 2020
Haifeng Wang, Xiaoying Liang, Suresh Sethi and Houmin Yan
affiliation not provided to SSRN, City University of Hong Kong - Department of Management Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business
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flexible delivery; backlog models; priority rules; inventory management

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Efficient Setup/Dispatching Policies in a Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility

Proceedings of 38th IEEE CDC, Phoenix, Arizona, Dec. 7-10, 1999, 1368-1372
Posted: 06 May 2020
Suresh Sethi, Chelliah Sriskandarajah, Kwok-Fai Chu and Houmin Yan
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, Texas A&M University, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management The Chinese University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business

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Semi-Conductor Manufacturing, Mean Cycle Time

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Optimal and Hierarchical Controls in Dynamic Stochastic Manufacturing Systems: A Review

ITORMS (Interactive Transactions of OR/MS), 3(2), 2000
Posted: 06 May 2020
Suresh Sethi, Houmin Yan, Hanqin Zhang and Qing Zhang
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business, Institute of Applied Mathematics Academia Sinica and Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia

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Optimal Control, Stochastic Manufacturing Systems

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Optimal Production Control in Pull Flow Lines with Multiple Part Types: A Summary

Proceedings of the 35th IEEE CDC, Kobe, Japan, 1996, 3847-3848
Posted: 06 May 2020
Jun Yang, Houmin Yan and Suresh Sethi
Dept. of Systems Engineering The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, H.K., City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business and University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management

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Optimal Production Control, Pull Flow, Inventory

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Minimum Average-Cost Froduction Plan in a Multi-Product Stochastic Manufacturing System

Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Kauai,HI, November 18-21, 1996, 361-365
Posted: 06 May 2020
Suresh Sethi, Wulin Suo, Michael I. Taksar and Houmin Yan
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, Queen's University - Smith School of Business, University of Missouri at Columbia - Department of Mathematics (Deceased) and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business

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Production planning, stochastic dynamic programming, vanishing discount approach, optimal control, long-run average cost

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Feedback Production Planning in a Stochastic Two-Machine Flowshop: Asymptotic Analysis and Computational Results

Journal Of Production Economics, 30-31, 1993, 79-93
Posted: 06 May 2020
Suresh Sethi, Houmin Yan, Qing Zhang and Xun Yu Zhou
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business, Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management

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aymptotic analysis, stochastic machine, state constrained problem

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Hub-Centered Production Control of Wafer Fabrication

Proceedings of the IEEE Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference and Workshop, Danvers, MA, Sept. 1990, 27-32
Posted: 06 May 2020
Sheldon Lou, Houmin Yan, Suresh Sethi, Anne Gardel and Prabhat Deosthali
Independent, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Flow Rate Control, Wafer Fabrication, Stochastic Control

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Supply Chain Redesign to Reduce Safety Stock Levels: Sequencing and Merging Operations

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management: Special Issue on Supply Chain Management, 49(3), Aug. 2002, 243-257
Posted: 05 May 2020
Houmin Yan, Chelliah Sriskandarajah, Suresh Sethi and Xiaohang Yue
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business, Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business

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supply-chain management, logistics, process redesign, safety stock

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Self-Restraining Bass Models

Journal of Forecasting, Forthcoming
Posted: 20 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 21 May 2015
Xiaoying Liang, Lei Xie and Houmin Yan
City University of Hong Kong - Department of Management Sciences, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - School of International Business Administration and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Faculty of Business

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diffusion, Bass model, self-restraining