Contract Analysis and Design for Supply Chains with Stochastic Demand

received his Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from Institute of Systems Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1986. He is currently a Bairen distinguished professor of Management Science at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of CAS and the Lotus distinguished professor of Management Science of Hunan University at Changsha. He is also an adjunct professor of over 30 universities in the world. He is/was the editor- in-chief, an area editor or a co-editor of 15 journals including Information and Management and Energy Economics. He was/is a guest editor for a special issue/volume of over 20 journals including European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, IIE Transactions, and Decision Support Systems. He has published 30 monographs and over 250 papers in leading journals. His current research interests include Supply Chain Management, Financial Engineering, Economic Forecasting, and Decision Analysis.

T. C. Edwin Cheng is Dean of the Faculty of Business, Fung Yiu King Wing Hang Bank Endowed Professor in Business Administration, and Chair Professor of Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained a B.Sc.[Eng](First Class Honours) from the University of Hong Kong, an M.Sc. from the University of Birmingham, U.K., and a Ph.D. and an Sc.D. from the University of Cambridge, U.K. He has previously taught in Canada, England, and Singapore. Prof. Cheng's research interests are in Operations Management and Operations Research. He has published over 600 papers in such journals as California Management Review, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Operations Research, Organization Science, Production and Operations Management, and SIAM Journal on Optimization. He has co-authored 11 books published by Chapman and Hall, McGraw-Hill, and Springer. He received the Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers, U.S.A., in 1992 and the Croucher Award (the top research award in Hong Kong) in 2001. He was named one of the "most cited scientists" in All Fields, in Business and Economics, in Computer Science, and in Engineering over the period 2004-2014 by the ISI Web of Science in 2015. A 2009 paper in the International Journal of Production Economics ranked him as the most productive researcher and the top 12th h-index researcher in Production/Operations Management in the world over the half-century 1959-2008. Over the years, Prof. Cheng has secured more than HK$50 million in research funding from both public and private sectors to support his diverse research programmes.