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作者：Zhou, Quan; Olsen, Tava Lennon
作者单位：University of Wollongong; University of Auckland
摘要：Most developed countries hold significant quantities of medical supplies in reserve for emergency response. Due to high handling costs and remote storage locations, such stocks are typically not used for day-to-day operations. In consequence, the expiry of reserve supplies (without use) is a significant problem. One possible remedy for such wastage is to donate large batches of dated supplies to developing nations, which often do without adequate medical supplies in their health systems. Here,...
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作者：Garcia, Gian-Gabriel P. S.; Lavieri, Mariel W.; McAllister, Thomas A.; McCrea, Michael P.; Broglio, Steven; CARE Consortium Investigators
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Medical College of Wisconsin; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) play an increasingly important role in medical decision making. Yet, patients whose objectives differ from their physician's may strategically report symptoms to alter treatment decisions. For example, athletes may underreport symptoms to expedite return-to-play (RTP) from sports-related concussion (SRC). Thus, clinicians must implement treatment policies that mitigate the Price of Naivete, that is, the reduction in health outcomes due to naively believing stra...
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作者：Li, Guang; Sheng, Lifei; Zhan, Dongyuan
作者单位：Queens University - Canada; University of Houston System; University of Houston Clear Lake; University of Houston; University of London; University College London
摘要：Motivated by the booming online grocery market and the extensive use of contingent free-shipping (CFS) policies in the e-grocery industry, we investigate the optimal CFS and pricing decisions for online grocers. Under a CFS policy, consumers enjoy free shipping for orders exceeding a certain threshold value; otherwise, they are charged a flat fee for orders below this threshold. We adopt a utility-based model to capture consumers' behavior of purchasing additional items to qualify for free shi...
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作者：Fan, Xiaoshuai; Chen, Ying-Ju; Tang, Christopher S. S.
作者单位：Southern University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Southern University of Science & Technology
摘要：Motivated by the challenge of allocating scarce resources from the federal government to different states during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper studies optimal schemes for allocating scarce resources to agents with private demand information under different favoritism structures. Through an investigation of a mechanism design model that aims to induce agents to report their demands truthfully, we find the following results. First, when the principal purely cares about social welfare and whe...
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作者：Le, Tuan; Stauffer, Jon M. M.; Shetty, Bala; Sriskandarajah, Chelliah
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：We study an optimal matching problem in the context of dual-donor organ exchange, where a portion of two living donors' organs are transplanted to a single patient. This dual-donor transplant technique is becoming more widespread for lung and liver transplants. However, multiple medical compatibility criteria pose a serious challenge for matching a patient with two compatible donors. In the United States and many other countries, laws prohibit commercial (for-profit) deals for human organs, so...
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作者：Deng, Jiaying; Ghasemkhani, Hossein; Tan, Yong; Tripathi, Arvind K.
作者单位：Fordham University; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Kansas
摘要：The choice of market mechanism is key to success for any online marketplace. In recent years, as peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has seen phenomenal growth, leading P2P lending platforms have used various market mechanisms and, in some cases, even switched from one mechanism to another, chasing higher market share and overall growth. While Prosper.com, a leading P2P lending platform, has switched from the auction lending model to a fixed price lending model, recent studies show that overall social ...
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作者：Li, Dong; Pang, Zhan; Qian, Lixian
作者单位：Loughborough University; Purdue University System; Purdue University; Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
摘要：We consider a car rental network revenue management (RM) problem, accounting for the key operational characteristics of car rental services such as the varying length of rentals and mobility of inventories, which imply the intertemporal and spatial correlations of rental demands for inventories across different locations and days. The problem is formulated as an infinite-horizon cyclic stochastic dynamic program to account for the time-varying and cyclic nature of car rental businesses. To tac...
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作者：Chen, Heng; Ryan, Jennifer K.
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：Hops are the flowers of a specialty crop that provide unique flavors to craft beer. We study a multi-year crop planning problem for a farmer who seeks to add hops production to the current production of a conventional crop. The farmer must dynamically determine the number of acres to allocate to each crop and design the terms of the forward contract under which brewers purchase the hops, considering the uncertainty of weather conditions, hops yield, hops spot market price, and conventional cro...
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作者：Kazaz, Burak; Webster, Scott; Yadav, Prashant
作者单位：Syracuse University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; INSEAD Business School; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We study mechanisms that encourage manufacturers of health products to build production and distribution capacity. This is important for low- and middle-income country (LMIC) markets where ability to pay is lower and demand risks are greater. Development finance institutions and philanthropies are beginning to utilize new instruments to incentivize manufacturers to build production/distribution capacity for LMIC markets. The goal of this paper is to understand the effectiveness of such mechani...
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作者：Sun, Kai; Sun, Minghe; Agrawal, Deepak; Dravenstott, Ronald; Rosinia, Frank; Roy, Arkajyoti
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：This work addresses the practical anesthesiologist scheduling (AS) problem motivated by the needs of an academic anesthesiology department. The AS problem requires the department to plan and deploy providers to adequately meet clinical demand and institutional protocols of various clinical units over a planning horizon of up to several weeks. A data-driven two-step AS framework is developed by exploiting the historical demand data of anesthesia cases. The first step is a shift design which obt...
