supported in part by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China(under Grant 52125702).
Even though smart meters have been widely used in power systems around the world,many consumers are still finding it hard to participate in demand response(DR)due to flat-rate retail pricing policy.To address this iss...
Heat exchanger is an important equipment used in process industries for cooling and heating purposes. Its design configuration which involves the flow of cold and hot fluids within the exchanger subjects it to corrosi...
supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China(NSSFC),under Grant No.18BGL265.
While coupons that can be redeemed only in online channels have been issued by e-commerce platforms for decades, a new type of platform’s coupons, i.e., omnichannel coupons, which can be redeemed in both online and s...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61801420);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20211145);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.020414380182);the Key Research and Development Program of Nanjing Jiangbei New Area(No.ZDYD20210101);the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(No.2020B0303040001);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2021M691536).
An increasing number of communication and computational schemes with quantum advantages have recently been proposed,which implies that quantum technology has fertile application prospects.However,demonstrating these s...
A collector samples coupons with replacement from a pool containing g uniform groups of coupons,where"uniform group"means that all coupons in the group are equally likely to occur(while coupons of different groups hav...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.71771184 and partially sup-ported by the Key Project of Shaanxi Inter-national Science and Technology Cooperation through Grant No.2018KWZ-04;Qiying Hu also acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under Grant No.71671046.
In this paper,we examine how a merchant should choose between discount promotion(offering a discount through an online third-party promotion platform)and coupon promotion(ssuing on-package coupons directly to consumer...
This work was supported in part by NSF CyberSEES-1331863,ECCS-1546682,NSF grants CNS-1149458,AST-1443891,EFRI-1440969,CCF-1331863,IIS-1636772;NSF Science&Technology Center Grant CCF-0939370;Electric Reliability Council of Texas(ERCOT),and the Power Systems Engineering Research Center.
Demand Response(DR)provides both operational and financial benefits to a variety of stakeholders in the power system.For example,in the deregulated market operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas(ERCOT),l...
A batch of HC420/780DP our company produced was rusted during hanging process in a coating production line of an automobile, which seriously affected the subsequent use of HC420/780DP. The phase of HC420/780DP corrosi...
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61572412,61472316);the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong(Nos.CityU 138513,CityU 11276816);the Innovation and Technology Commission of Hong Kong under ITF Project(No.ITS/307/15);an AWS Education Research Grant,and the Science and Technology Project of Shaanxi Province(Nos.2016ZDJC-05,2013SZS-16).
User targeting via behavioral analysis is becoming increasingly prevalent in online messaging services.By taking into account users'behavior information such as geographic locations,purchase behaviors,and search histo...