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作者：Senoner, Julian; Kratzwald, Bernhard; Kuzmanovic, Milan; Netland, Torbjorn H.; Feuerriegel, Stefan
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University of Munich; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：To meet order fulfillment targets, manufacturers seek to optimize production schedules. Machine learning can support this objective by predicting throughput times on production lines given order specifications. However, this is challenging when manufacturers produce customized products because customization often leads to changes in the probability distribution of operational data-so-called distributional shifts. Distributional shifts can harm the performance of predictive models when deployed...
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作者：Roemer, Nils; Souza, Gilvan C.; Troester, Christian; Voigt, Guido
作者单位：University of Hamburg; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Kuhne Logistics University; University of Hamburg
摘要：Carbon emissions reduction initiatives have received considerable attention at the corporate level. Companies such as Daimler, Apple, and Amazon have publicly declared their goal of becoming carbon neutral or net zero in a near future. They are responding to a growing demand for sustainable products and services. Companies have a variety of options for carbon emission reductions available to them, including internal reductions such as adopting renewable energy as well as buying carbon offsets....
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作者：Nikoofal, Mohammad Ebrahim; Pourakbar, Morteza; Gumus, Mehmet
作者单位：Toronto Metropolitan University; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; McGill University
摘要：Global trade is seafaring commerce; 90% of traded goods are carried by maritime transport, which has become vulnerable to security risks. This has led governments to initiate security programs serving tens of thousands of members worldwide. This paper studies the government's incentive design and the interaction between Customs inspection capacity and the incentives offered in security programs. Using the theory of incentives, we investigate the value of a partnership in improving the security...
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作者：Murthy, Nagesh N. N.; Nagaraja, Haikady N. N.; Berenji, Hossein Rikhtehgar
作者单位：University of Oregon; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Pacific University
摘要：Aggressive overlapping of stochastic activities during phases of vaccine development has been critical to making effective vaccines for COVID-19 available to the public, at pandemic speed. In cyclical projects wherein activities can be overlapped, downstream tasks may need rework on account of having commenced prior to receiving requisite information that is only available upon completion of upstream task(s). We provide a framework to understand the interplay between stochastic overlap duratio...
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作者：Menon, Rahul; Nan, Lin
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：This study examines the optimal reporting time a regulator should choose for firms to report their information when the firms' effort choices influence the outcome of projects. Our analysis shows that, the regulator's optimal choice of reporting time to maximize overall efficiency is contingent on a trade-off between motivating a firm's effort to improve the outcome and saving the liquidation value for the creditor to reduce the firm's financing cost. We also find that to induce the firm's eff...
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作者：Chen, Weiwei; Gao, Siyang; Chen, Wenjie; Du, Jianzhong
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; City University of Hong Kong; Southern University of Science & Technology; Southern University of Science & Technology; Fudan University
摘要：The service sector has become increasingly important in today's economy. To meet the rising expectation of high-quality services, efficiently allocating resources is vital for service systems to balance service qualities with costs. In particular, this paper focuses on a class of resource allocation problems where the service-level objective and constraints are in the form of probabilistic measures. Further, process complexity and system dynamics in service systems often render their performan...
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作者：Liao, Chen-Nan; Chen, Ying-Ju; Chen, Vincent (Pei-Ming)
作者单位：National Taiwan University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Taiwan University
摘要：Medical rumors have become a threat to modern society. To study the spread and control of rumors, nonlinear differential equations modeling with the well-mixed assumption is commonly used. However, this approach ignores the underlying network structure which plays an important role in information spreading. We establish a generalized differential equations model to study the spread and control of medical rumors in a highly asymmetric social network. In our model, each node represents a group o...
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作者：Wang, Yang; Luo, Xueming; Lin, Zhijie
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Tsinghua University; Tsinghua University
摘要：Customers of two-sided platforms may succumb to choice overload due to the frequently overwhelming assortment in such markets. We investigate the effect of assortment size on consumers' purchase probability using a unique click-stream dataset from a large peer-to-peer meal delivery platform. To resolve the key endogeneity challenge that assortment size may be larger in areas where consumers experience greater utility from purchase, we introduce a novel causal inference strategy that exploits a...
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作者：Zhao, Xia; Huang, Lu; Wang, Lei; Yazdani, Elham; Zhang, Cheng
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Fudan University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Understanding consumers' engagement and subsequent content consumption behavior in the mobile context is critical to mobile app providers. In this paper, we develop a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to capture the dynamics of users' engagement states and consumption decisions on the number of books/chapters read and the amount of money spent. Our method allows us to simultaneously capture three interdependent usage behaviors using a single integrated model and identify the impact of content loading ...
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作者：Hall, Nicholas G.; Liu, Zhixin
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan Dearborn
摘要：The study of time-inconsistent decision-making, in particular present bias, has greatly influenced the field of behavioral economics over the last two decades. Moreover, it has resulted in the design and implementation of widely used incentive schemes for various important applications. However, the effect of present bias on decision-making for operational problems has been studied less. This work considers the effect of present bias in a simple scheduling system that requires decisions about ...
