Research on Coordination of Fresh Produce Supply Chain in Big Market Sales Environment by Juning Su, Jiebing Wu, Chenguang Liu

“…In this paper, we propose two decision models for decentralized and centralized fresh produce supply chains with stochastic supply and demand and controllable transportation time. …”
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Pricing Decisions in Dual-Channel Supply Chain considering Different Fairness Preferences and Low-Carbon Advertising Level by Hong Huo, Dan Luo, Zhanghua Yan, Hao He

“…Absolute fairness concerns intensify the dual marginal effect of decentralized decision-making.…”
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Optimization of multiple access in the energy harvesting wireless sensor network with delivery deadline constraint by Aoqin YANG, Aoyu GONG, Ting FANG, Lei DENG, Qiang LI, Yijin ZHANG

“…With the wide application of the energy harvesting wireless sensor network (WSN) in many real-time communication scenarios, such as environmental monitoring, industrial automation and battlefield surveillance, the multiple access of such WSN needs to take into account both the delivery deadline constraint of data packets and the energy harvesting dynamics of sensor nodes.Due to the inherent decoupling of interference, delivery urgency and remaining energy, the design and optimization of such multiple access are more challenging than that of traditional multiple access that only needs to take into account the packet traffic pattern.A centralized access scheme was designed with the access actions relying on the global knowledge of current delivery urgency and remaining energy.And then, to avoid the costly overhead in the centralized access, a decentralized access scheme was designed with the access probabilities merely relying on the local knowledge of delivery urgency and remaining energy.Under the objective of maximizing the network throughput, the centralized access schemes were formulated with complete and simplified knowledge as two Markov decision processes (MDPs), respectively, and the backward induction algorithm was used to obtain optimal centralized policies for these MDPs.Furthermore, the decentralized access was formulated with simplified knowledge as a decentralized MDP, and the Markov policy search was used to propose an ε-optimal decentralized policy.Simulations under a wide range of network configurations were provided to verify the effectiveness of the simplified modeling and demonstrate the performance advantage of the proposed polices.…”
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Dynamic Pricing and Supply Coordination with Reimbursement Contract under Random Yield and Demand by Guo Li, Lun Ran, Xiaohang Yue, Zhaohua Wang

“…This paper investigates the dynamic pricing and supply chain coordination in a decentralized system that consists of one supplier and one manufacturer, in which both the market demand and production yield are stochastic. …”
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Study on Quality Decisions in Supply Chain considering the Lagged Time and Retailers Competition by Yuan Peng, Liang Ning

“…Under decentralized decision-making, the lagged time of product quality on goodwill is favorable to retailers but unfavorable to manufacturers and vice versa. …”
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Research on the Fresh Agricultural Product Supply Chain Coordination with Supply Disruptions by Sun Guohua

“…The optimal solutions in the centralized and decentralized supply chains are studied. It is found that the retailer’s optimal order quantity and the maximum total supply chain profit in the decentralized supply chain with wholesale price contract are less than that in the centralized supply chain. …”
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Transpoiesis: the art of doing organization without becoming one by Christian Schröder

“…Emerging from ethnographic research on the World Social Forum (WSF) and inspired by systems theory, transpoiesis emphasizes the dynamic balance within social movements between decentralized organization and strategic coherence. This differentiates it from autopoiesis, which focuses on self-sustaining systems that maintain and reproduce their structure autonomously through internal processes, rather than emphasizing the dynamic balance between decentralized organization and strategic coherence. …”
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Lithium-Ion Battery State of Health Degradation Prediction Using Deep Learning Approaches by Talal Alharbi, Muhammad Umair, Abdulelah Alharbi

“…., deep learning) and decentralized (i.e., federated learning) approaches for SoH prediction. …”
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Comparison of Toric and Spherical Orthokeratology Lenses in Patients with Astigmatism by Jun Jiang, Lili Lian, Feifu Wang, Ling Zhou, Xuhong Zhang, E. Song

“…There was a significant linear correlation between the change in corneal astigmatism and lens decentration in the toric group from 1 month to 1 year (Y = 3.268 ∗ X + 0.9182, R2 = 0.5035, p<0.0001 (X: lens decentration; Y: astigmatic changes)). …”
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Numerical Study of the Active Tendon Control of a Cable-Stayed Bridge in a Construction Phase by M. H. El Ouni, N. Ben Kahla

“…The proposed strategy is then compared to the one using decentralized integral force feedback (IFF) and showed better performance. …”
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Scenario Analysis on Climate Change Impacts of Urban Land Expansion under Different Urbanization Patterns: A Case Study of Wuhan Metropolitan by Xinli Ke, Feng Wu, Caixue Ma

“…Accordingly, it can be concluded that decentralized urbanization is a reasonable urbanization pattern to mitigate climate change in rapid urbanization period.…”
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Differential Game Model for a Dual-Channel Supply Chain’s Optimal Strategy under the Reference Carbon Emission Effect by Di Yu

“…In order to alleviate the double marginal effect brought about by decentralized decision-making, a cost-compensation coordination mechanism is proposed. …”
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Sulcus Fixation of Foldable Intraocular Lenses Guided by Ultrasound Biomicroscopy by Shasha Gao, Tingyu Qin, Shengnan Wang, Yong Lu

“…The inserting position of needles, the haptics position of IOL and the IOL tilt, and decentration were observed by UBM examination 3 months after the surgery. …”
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Game Theoretic Analysis of Carbon Emission Reduction and Sales Promotion in Dyadic Supply Chain in Presence of Consumers’ Low-Carbon Awareness by Liangjie Xia, Longfei He

“…We consider three typical scenarios, that is, centralized and decentralized without or with side-payment. We compare measures of supply chain performances, such as profitabilities, emission reduction efficiencies, and effectiveness, in these scenarios. …”
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A Dynamic Stackelberg Game of Supply Chain for a Corporate Social Responsibility by Massimiliano Ferrara, Mehrnoosh Khademi, Mehdi Salimi, Somayeh Sharifi

“…We propose a model of a supply chain in a decentralized state which includes a supplier and a manufacturer. …”
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Pioneering the Security of EHRs Using an Immersive Blockchain Conceptual Framework by Rihab Benaich, Youssef Gahi, Saida El Mendili

“…Findings indicate that this hybrid blockchain model, enhanced with quantum-resistant cryptography and decentralized governance, significantly improves EHR security. …”
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Majoritarianism and Monoculture (M&M) by Mansoor “Manny” Ahmed, Dann R. Toliver, Hazem Danny Nakib

“…Research in decentralized computing, specifically in consensus algorithms, has focused on providing resistance to an adversary with a minority stake. …”
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Coordinated beamforming for cognitive multi-cell networks with wiretap channels by Dong-hua CHEN, Xiu-xiu ZHANG, Wei-bo XIE

“…Owing to the coupling among the vectors to be optimized，the problem becomes non-convex and non-linear.Accordingly，a centralized coordinated beamforming design method was proposed by constraining the leakage interference and using the semi-definite relaxation，and on the base of it，a decentralized algorithm was also proposed by decomposing the centralized design problem into a group of sub-problems on each cell’s base by using dual decomposition.Simulation results show that the proposed schemes make effective reduction in power consumption while guarantee the legal users’ secrecy rate requirement and the cognitive interference constraint.Moreover，the proposed decentralized method not only reduces the computational complexity，but also has the same performance as the centralized algorithm.…”
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Blockchain-based IoT architecture by Shipeng CHEN, Bin CHEN, Mingjun DAI, Hui WANG

“…The Internet of things (IoT) architecture based on the traditional Internet is facing data privacy security issues,central server single point issues,and etc.Building a data security ecosystem is a challenge for the future development of the IoT.The decentralized autonomy,tamper-resistance and security of the blockchain technology are proposing a new solution to this challenge.An IoT architecture was proposed based on the blockchain technology as the foundation of a trust-free network,which provided an information-secure network service for the current IoT.Based on the decentralized characteristics of the blockchain technology,the proposed architecture could replace the client-server (C-S) centralized communication model of the traditional IoT to solve the overload problem of the central server and the data security issues.…”
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Inventory and Ordering Decisions in Dual-Channel Supply Chains Involving Free Riding and Consumer Switching Behavior with Supply Chain Financing by Senyu Xu, Huajun Tang, Zhijun Lin

“…This work investigates the effects of two typical behaviors, free riding behavior and consumer switching behavior, on inventory, ordering, and sales effort decisions in decentralized and centralized decision situations with stochastic demand. …”
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