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• Supply chain preparedness: How operational settings, product and disaster characteristics affect humanitarian responses AI翻译
  作者：Stumpf, Jonas; Besiou, Maria; Wakolbinger, Tina
  作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; Vienna University of Economics & Business; Kuhne Logistics University
  摘要：Supply chains are dynamic and complex systems. This holds particularly true for humanitarian supply chains that operate under strong uncertainty. In view of an ever-growing gap of unmet humanitarian needs, it is essential to gain a better understanding of the behavior of humanitarian supply chain systems. Despite a growing academic output in this field, there is a lack of empirical studies that take an integrated view on humanitarian supply chains and support decision makers with fact-based ev...
• Sourcing and pricing decisions under upstream competition with a financially distressed supplier, endogenous bankruptcy risk, and a backup supply option AI翻译
  作者：Gernert, Andreas K.; Wuttke, David A.; Heese, H. Sebastian
  作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; Technical University of Munich; North Carolina State University; North Carolina State University
  摘要：To maintain future supplier competition, manufacturers may support financially distressed suppliers by sourcing from them, even if they are less efficient than competitors, and by procuring larger quantities from them at higher prices. We analyze these strategies in a model in which a manufacturer decides for one of two available suppliers, supplier bankruptcy risk is endogenous, and financial distress can lead to internal or external reorganization. Following bankruptcy, the remaining supplie...
• Patient-controlled use of nonphysician providers: Appointment scheduling in mixed-provider settings AI翻译
  作者：Taiwo, Enayon Sunday; Savin, Sergei; Chen (Frank), Yuohua; Chin, Kwai-Sang
  作者单位：University of Winnipeg; University of Pennsylvania; City University of Hong Kong
  摘要：The aging population and increasing chronic disease load are rapidly changing the face of primary care delivery, with mid-level (e.g., nurse) practitioners providing growing proportion of patient care. Potential differences in the quality of care offered by physicians and nurse practitioners may affect patient preferences, thus leading to patient choice behavior. This paper focuses on the problem of appointment scheduling for physician-nurse teams in the presence of patient choice and no-shows...
• Mobile advertisement campaigns for boosting in-store visits: A design framework and case study AI翻译
  作者：Keshanian, Kimia; Ramasubbu, Narayan; Dutta, Kaushik
  作者单位：University of Tampa; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
  摘要：Brick-and-mortar retailers seek higher foot traffic in their stores to improve their sales opportunities. In this quest, location-based advertising on mobile devices has emerged as an important marketing tool for targeting potential customers. The design of such advertising campaigns is complex, and their effectiveness depends on the ability to collect and examine data that aids in targeting the right customers at the right time and place. We develop a campaign design framework that explicitly...
• Joint pricing and inventory management under minimax regret AI翻译
  作者：Li, Chengzhang; Lu, Mengshi
  作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Purdue University System; Purdue University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  摘要：We study the problem of jointly optimizing the price and order quantity for a perishable product in a single selling period, also known as the pricing newsvendor problem, under demand ambiguity. Specifically, the demand is a function of the selling price and a random factor of which the distribution is unknown. We employ the minimax regret decision criterion to minimize the worst-case regret, where the regret is defined as the difference between the optimal profit that could be obtained with p...
• Designing professional services: Pricing and prioritization AI翻译
  作者：Wu, Chenguang (Allen); Jin, Chen; Veeraraghavan, Senthil
  作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; National University of Singapore; University of Pennsylvania
  摘要：We study the optimal design of a professional service in a mixed market of customers with heterogeneous skills and capabilities of using such service. Expert customers can avail of the service on their own, whereas amateur customers find it challenging to deploy the service and can only procure the service through an intermediary who resolves the technical issues. We develop a model that captures the essential trade-offs in such settings: heterogeneity in customer expertise, decentralization b...