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作者：Zhou, Zach Zhizhong; Choudhary, Vidyanand
作者单位：Tongji University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：The number and impact of open source projects is increasing. We examine the impact of competition from open source software (OSS) on proprietary software providers by analyzing three cases: (i) proprietary software as a monopoly, (ii) mixed duopoly competition between proprietary software provider and OSS, and (i) duopoly competition between two proprietary software providers. We use an analytical model to capture two important features of OSS: (i) its zero licensing price and (ii) its lower u...
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作者：Yu, Jiayi Joey; Tang, Christopher S.; Li, Musen Kingsley; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max
作者单位：Fudan University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Shanghai University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
摘要：Accessibility of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations is an important factor for adoption of EV, which is an effective green technology for reducing carbon emissions. Recognizing this, many governments are contemplating ideas for achieving EV adoption targets, such as constructing extra EV charging stations directly or offering subsidies to entice automakers to construct more EV charging stations. To achieve these targets, governments need to coordinate with automakers to ensure that the to...
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作者：Somanchi, Sriram; Adjerid, Idris; Gross, Ralph
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：Coupling healthcare datasets with advanced statistical methods has the potential to improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare dramatically. However, data used for predictive decision making in healthcare delivery has significant variable costs. We offer a novel and generalizable framework that helps reduce the costs associated with the use of data for healthcare analytics while maintaining high predictive accuracy. We utilize this approach in the emergency department (ED) context and sp...
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作者：Wang, Tianxiang; Yu, Peiwen; Hu, Jianqiang
作者单位：Fudan University; Chongqing University
摘要：We study a decentralized admission control problem with capacity borrowing. In this problem, the admission decision is made by each server who is assigned dedicated capacity. However, a server can borrow capacity from other servers if his dedicated capacity is exhausted. The borrower compensates the lender by a payment equal to the borrowing cost. Hence, the servers share their capacities via borrowing, but they also compete against each other for their pooled capacities. We formulate this pro...
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作者：Karamshetty, Varun; De Vries, Harwin; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.; Dewilde, Sarah; Minnaard, Warnyta; Ongarora, Dennis; Abuga, Kennedy; Yadav, Prashant
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; INSEAD Business School; University of Nairobi
摘要：Universal health coverage (UHC) is an integral part of the United Nations sustainable development goals. The private sector plays a prominent role in achieving UHC, being the primary source of essential medicines for many people. However, many private healthcare facilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have insufficient stocks of essential medicines. Simultaneously, these same facilities carry excessive quantities of other drugs, leading to obsolescence. This suggests poor invent...
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作者：Pu, Jingchuan
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：The past decade has witnessed the explosive implementation of corporate social tools and technologies such as corporate internal online communities. However, there is little empirical evidence on whether and to what extent the implementation of an internal online community affects individual job performance in the geographically dispersed organization. In this study, we investigate this question with a quasi-natural experiment: A large manufacturer (i.e., the company) introduced an internal on...
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作者：Abouee-Mehrizi, Hossein; Zare, Ata Ghareaghaji; Konrad, Renata A.
作者单位：University of Waterloo; University of Toronto
摘要：The current literature on pricing in service systems with time-sensitive customers predominately ignores the rational abandonment of customers with mixed-risk attitude. The goal of this study is to address this gap. We consider an unobservable queueing system with a nonlinear waiting cost function, which is concave up to a certain point and then becomes convex, capturing the mixed-risk attitude of customers observed in empirical studies. We assume that customers are sensitive with respect to w...
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作者：Zaerpour, Farzad; Bijvank, Marco; Ouyang, Huiyin; Sun, Zhankun
作者单位：University of Winnipeg; University of Calgary; University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Emergency department (ED) overcrowding and long patient wait times have become a worldwide problem. We propose a novel approach to assigning physicians to shifts such that ED wait times are reduced without adding new physicians. In particular, we extend the physician rostering problem (PRP) by including heterogeneity among emergency physicians in terms of their productivity (measured by the number of new patients seen in 1 hour) and by considering the stochastic nature of patient arrivals and ...
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作者：Liu, Zibo; Lin, Zhijie; Zhang, Ying; Tan, Yong
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Tsinghua University; University of Auckland
摘要：Prior literature has focused primarily on offline sampling of physical goods and online sampling of information goods, whereas a new form of sampling campaign-physical goods sampling via online channels-receives little attention. Leveraging a rich data set from Taobao, a large e-commerce platform in China, this study strives to understand the mechanisms of physical goods sampling via online channels. Specifically, we investigate (1) how the sampling size (number of free samples provided) acts ...
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作者：Spiliotopoulou, Eirini; Donohue, Karen; Cagri Gurbuz, Mustafa
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：We study the impact of three well-known inventory allocation mechanisms, including proportional, linear, and uniform, on the ordering behavior of retailers serviced from a central distribution center. Based on the allocation mechanism, retailers may have an incentive to adjust (either inflate or deflate) their orders to gain a more favorable allocation, a behavior that may reduce allocation efficiency from a system perspective. We find that while all three mechanisms are centrally optimal unde...
