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作者：Bertsimas, Dimitris; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Reichman, Shachar; Silberholz, John
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Tel Aviv University
摘要：Tenure decisions, key decisions in academic institutions, are primarily based on subjective assessments of candidates. Using a large-scale bibliometric database containing 198,310 papers published 1975-2012 in the field of operations research (OR), we propose prediction models of whether a scholar would perform well on a number of future success metrics using statistical models trained with data from the scholar's first five years of publication, a subset of the information available to tenure...
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作者：Jacquillat, Alexandre; Odoni, Amedeo R.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Carnegie Mellon University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Most flight delays are created by imbalances between demand and capacity at the busiest airports. Absent large increases in capacity, airport congestion can only be mitigated through scheduling interventions or improved capacity utilization. This paper presents an integrated approach that jointly optimizes the airport's flight schedule at the strategic level and the utilization of airport capacity at the tactical level, subject to scheduling, capacity, and delay-reduction constraints. The capa...
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作者：Bleichrodt, Han; Keskin, Umut; Rohde, Kirsten I. M.; Spinu, Vitalie; Wakker, Peter
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Istanbul Bilgi University
摘要：We introduce a new type of preference condition for intertemporal choice, which requires present values to be independent of various other variables. The new conditions are more concise and more transparent than traditional ones. They are directly related to applications because present values are widely used tools in intertemporal choice. Our conditions give more general behavioral axiomatizations, which facilitate normative debates and empirical tests of time inconsistencies and related phen...
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作者：Liu, Yan; Cooper, William L.
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：We consider an infinite-horizon single-product pricing problem in which a fraction of customers is patient and the remaining fraction is impatient. A patient customer will wait up to some fixed number of time periods for the price of the product to fall below his or her valuation at which point the customer will make a purchase. If the price does not fall below a patient customer's valuation at any time during those periods, then that customer will leave without buying. In contrast, impatient ...
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作者：Yu, Yueshan; Chen, Xin; Zhang, Fuqiang
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This paper studies a capacity management problem with upgrading. A firm needs to procure multiple classes of capacities and then allocate the capacities to satisfy multiple classes of customers that arrive over time. A general upgrading rule is considered, i. e., unmet demand can be satisfied using multistep upgrade. No replenishment is allowed and the firm has to make the allocation decisions without observing future demand. We first characterize the structure of the optimal allocation policy...
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作者：Wu, Shining; Liu, Qian; Zhang, Rachel Q.
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：We consider a retailer that sells the same or different versions of the product season after season. At the beginning of each season (stage 1), the retailer places an order and sells the product at the full price. As the sales unfold, the retailer has an opportunity to mark down the price (stage 2), which creates an incentive for strategic consumers to delay their purchases for price discount. However, consumers do not know the markdown price exactly when they time their purchases; instead, th...
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作者：Levi, Retsef; Perakis, Georgia; Uichanco, Joline
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Consider the newsvendor model, but under the assumption that the underlying demand distribution is not known as part of the input. Instead, the only information available is a random, independent sample drawn from the demand distribution. This paper analyzes the sample average approximation (SAA) approach for the data-driven newsvendor problem. We obtain a new analytical bound on the probability that the relative regret of the SAA solution exceeds a threshold. This bound is significantly tight...
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作者：Prekopa, Andras; Unuvar, Merve
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA
摘要：Single commodity networks are considered, where demands at the nodes are random. The problem is to find minimum cost optimal built in capacities at the nodes and arcs subject to the constraint that all demands should be met on a prescribed probability level (reliability constraint) and some deterministic constraints should be satisfied. The reliability constraint is formulated in terms of the Gale-Hoffman feasibility inequalities, but their number is reduced by elimination technique. The conce...
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作者：Abbas, Ali E.; Bell, David E.
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Southern California; Harvard University
摘要：We study the problem of finding ordinal utility functions to rank the outcomes of a decision when preference independence between the attributes is not present. We propose that the next level of complexity is to assume that preferences over one attribute can switch at most once as another attribute varies from low to high. We refer to this property as ordinal one-switch independence. We present both necessary and sufficient conditions for this ordinal property to hold and provide families of f...
