2025

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• Optimal Capacity and Price Designs Under Ex Ante and Ex Post Theft AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Mingliu; Tian, Feng; Zuo, Ruiting
  作者单位：University of Texas Dallas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Hong Kong
  摘要：Problem definition: Internal theft poses a significant challenge in retail firms' operations. Owing to a lack of effective monitoring tools, a firm cannot observe every action in daily operations of its employees, providing opportunity for wrongdoing, such as capacity and cash stealing. As a result, a common practice is to increase the price of goods to offset the loss in revenue due to the increasing threat of theft. However, we show that such practices are not optimal. Methodology/results: W...
• A Two-Part Machine Learning Approach to Characterizing Network Interference in A/B Testing AI翻译
  作者：Yuan, Yuan; Altenburger, Kristen M.
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
  摘要：Problem definition: The reliability of controlled experiments, commonly referred to as A/B tests, is often compromised by network interference, where the outcomes of individual units are influenced by interactions with others. Significant challenges in this domain include the lack of accounting for complex social network structures and the difficulty in suitably characterizing network interference. Methodology/results: To address these challenges, we propose a machine learning-based method. We...
• Dynamic Care Unit Placements Under Unknown Demand with Learning AI翻译
  作者：Dean, Arlen; Zhalechian, Mohammad; Van Oyen, Mark P.
  作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
  摘要：Problem definition: Care units are the facilities where admitted hospital patients receive treatment and monitoring services. This paper studies the problem of deciding which patients to place into the various available care units at any time. To determine placements in practice, hospitals rely on clinicians to discern a patient's care needs and appropriately trade-off between future demand and limited bed availability. Making the right decisions remains challenging because patients are hetero...
• Efficient Cloud Server Deployment Under Demand Uncertainty AI翻译
  作者：Liu, Rui Peng; Mellou, Konstantina; Gong, Evelyn Xiao-Yue; Li, Beibin; Coffee, Thomas; Pathuri, Jeevan; Simchi-Levi, David; Menache, Ishai
  作者单位：Microsoft; Carnegie Mellon University; Microsoft; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  摘要：Problem definition: Cloud computing is a multibillion-dollar business that draws substantial capital investments from large companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Large cloud providers need to accommodate the growing demand for computing resources while avoiding unnecessary overprovisioning of hardware and operational costs. The underlying decision processes are challenging, as they involve long-term hardware and infrastructure investments under future demand uncertainty. In this pap...
• Stability of Procurement Networks AI翻译
  作者：Chiong, Khai; Qi, Anyan
  作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
  摘要：Problem definition: Given an observed procurement network, we characterize when the network structure is rationalizable as pairwise stable-that there exist preferences such that no pairs of buyers and suppliers would deviate from the existing network structure. Methodology/results: We show that the Weak Axiom of Revealed Pairwise Stability (WARPS) is a necessary and sufficient testable condition for pairwise stability. WARPS is an algorithm that checks whether a link can be added to the networ...
• Hold Me Accountable: Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in Services AI翻译
  作者：Glew, Rob; Senot, Claire
  作者单位：McGill University; Tulane University
  摘要：Problem definition: Many services rely on the prosocial behavior of consumers that benefits the wider community for effective delivery, such as bike-sharing schemes, self-service checkouts in grocery stores, and pathology screening services, yet there are frequent challenges in motivating honest, cooperative user behavior in these services. We build on existing research to argue that the degree of anonymity of users toward the service provider can be used to facilitate their prosocial behavior...
• Buying Cheap: Brand Switching During Economic Distress and Its Disparate Impact on Consumers AI翻译
  作者：Dutta, Shantanu; Singhvi, Divya; Singhvi, Somya
  作者单位：University of Southern California; New York University
  摘要：Problem definition: Improving the surplus of low-income consumers during economic distress is of primary concern for many governments. This paper uses an economic model to investigate consumers' brand switching during economic distress and highlights its disparate impact on low-income consumers. Our modeling framework also captures how retailers and national-brand manufacturers strategically adjust the market prices in response to brand switching and shelf space constraints. To generate prescr...
• Regularized Online Allocation Problems: Fairness and Beyond AI翻译
  作者：Balseiro, Santiago R.; Lu, Haihao; Mirrokni, Vahab
  作者单位：Columbia University; Columbia University; Alphabet Inc.; Google Incorporated; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Alphabet Inc.; Google Incorporated
  摘要：Problem definition: Online allocation problems with resource constraints have a rich history in operations management. In this paper, we introduce the regularized online allocation problem, a variant that includes a nonlinear regularizer acting on the total resource consumption. In this problem, requests repeatedly arrive over time, and for each request, a decision-maker needs to take an action that generates a reward and consumes resources. The objective is to simultaneously maximize additive...
• The Role of Family Engagement in Influencing Patient Satisfaction and Readmission AI翻译
  作者：Bok, Joonhyuk; McDermott, Christopher; Sharma, Luv
  作者单位：Dongbei University of Finance & Economics; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
  摘要：Problem definition: Family engagement (FE) is an ongoing partnership between health professionals and patients' families to enhance healthcare quality, safety, and delivery. Although FE is increasingly considered an essential component of patient-centered care, its importance in influencing healthcare delivery outcomes is unclear. This study examines the impact of FE on patient care outcomes (PCOs)-specifically, patient satisfaction (PS) and readmission (Readm)-in the context of varying severi...
• Going the Distance: The Impact of Commute on Gender Diversity in Public Service AI翻译
  作者：Kaaua, Dawson; Virudachalam, Vanitha
  作者单位：Georgetown University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  摘要：Problem definition: Women have been shown to prefer jobs with a better work-life balance across many fields. Given that serving as a state political representative requires a significant amount of travel between one's home district and the state capitol, this suggests that long commute distances may reduce the number of women seeking political office in the United States. At the same time, state political positions vary in their degree of flexibility (e.g., full-time versus part-time) and comm...