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作者：Chan, Carri W.; Green, Linda V.; Lu, Yina; Leahy, Nicole; Yurt, Roger
作者单位：Columbia University; NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; Cornell University; Weill Cornell Medical Center; Weill Cornell Medicine
摘要：The U. S. government has mandated that, in a catastrophic event, metropolitan areas need to be capable of caring for 50 burn-injured patients per million population. In New York City, this corresponds to 400 patients. There are currently 140 burn beds in the region, which can be surged up to 210. To care for additional patients, hospitals without burn centers will be used to stabilize patients until burn beds become available. In this work, we develop a new system for prioritizing patients for...
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作者：Rajagopalan, Sampath
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Over the past six decades, numerous analytical models have been developed to determine optimal inventory levels. These models predict that inventories carried by a retailer should be a function of the product variety carried by the retailer, distribution system characteristics, economies of scale, etc. A few recent empirical studies have explored the impact of some of these factors on aggregate inventories at U. S. retailers. Building on these works, this study empirically explores the role of...
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作者：Dawande, Milind; Gavirneni, Srinagesh; Mehrotra, Mili; Mookerjee, Vijay
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Cornell University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The necessity of surface water for irrigation and its increasing scarcity in developing economies motivate the need for its efficient distribution. The inequity in the distribution of surface water arises because of the relative physical locations of the farms. Head-reach (primary) farms are close to the source, whereas tail-end (secondary) farms are relatively farther. The lack of physical infrastructure implies that water allocated to secondary farms must pass through primary farms. Left to ...
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作者：Lim, Michael K.; Bassamboo, Achal; Chopra, Sunil; Daskin, Mark S.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Northwestern University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Supply chain disruptions come with catastrophic consequences in spite of their low probability of occurrence. In this paper, we consider a facility location problem in the presence of random facility disruptions where facilities can be protected with additional investments. Whereas most existing models in the literature implicitly assume that the disruption probability estimate is perfectly accurate, we investigate the impact of misestimating the disruption probability. Using a stylized contin...
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作者：Huang, Tingliang; Allon, Gad; Bassamboo, Achal
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Northwestern University
摘要：The traditional operations management and queueing literature typically assumes that customers are fully rational. In contrast, in this paper we study canonical service models with boundedly rational customers. We capture bounded rationality using a model in which customers are incapable of accurately estimating their expected waiting time. We investigate the impact of bounded rationality from both a profit-maximizing firm's perspective and a social planner's perspective. For visible queues wi...
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作者：Cho, Soo-Haeng; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：We examine three selling strategies of a manufacturer who produces and sells a seasonal product to a retailer under uncertain supply and demand: (1) advance selling-presells the product before observing uncertain supply and demand; (2) regular selling-sells the product after supply and demand are realized; and (3) dynamic selling-combines both advance and regular selling strategies. We model the first two strategies as single-period Stackelberg games, and we model the last strategy as a two-pe...
