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作者:Wei, Qiang; Mu, Yao; Guo, Xunhua; Jiang, Weijie; Chen, Guoqing
作者单位:Tsinghua University; Shanghai International Studies University; Tsinghua University
摘要:Recommender systems are widely used by online merchants to find the products that are likely to interest consumers, but existing dynamic methods still face challenges regarding diverse behaviors, variability in interest shifts, and the identification of psychological dynamics. Premised on the marketing funnel perspective to analyze consumer shopping journeys, this study proposes a novel machine learning approach for product recommendation, namely, multistage dynamic Bayesian network (MS-DBN), ...
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作者:Zhang, Hongzhe; Zhao, Xiaohang; Fang, Xiao; Chen, Bintong
作者单位:The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University of Delaware
摘要:Disaster response is critical to save lives and reduce damages in the aftermath of a disaster. Fundamental to disaster response operations is the management of disaster relief resources. To this end, a local agency (e.g., a local emergency resource distribution center) collects demands from local communities affected by a disaster, dispatches available resources to meet the demands, and requests more resources from a central emergency management agency (e.g., the Federal Emergency Management A...
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作者:Park, Sujin; Tafti, Ali; Shmueli, Galit
作者单位:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; National Tsing Hua University
摘要:Transportability is a structural causal modeling approach aimed at transporting a causal effect from a randomized experimental study in one population to a different population where only observational data are available. It offers a way to overcome the practical constraints in inferring causal relationships, such as endogeneity concerns in observational data and the infeasibility of replicating certain experiments. Although transportability holds significant promise for research and practice,...
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作者:Yan, Bei; Mai, Feng; Wu, Chaojiang; Chen, Rui; Li, Xiaolin
作者单位:Stevens Institute of Technology; University System of Ohio; Kent State University; Kent State University Kent; Kent State University Salem; Iowa State University; University System of Maryland; Towson University
摘要:Large firms are leaders in disaster response and communication. We study how firms communicate on social media during various disasters and the relationship between their communication and public engagement using a computationally intensive theory construction framework. The framework incorporates a novel natural language processing (NLP) approach, Semantic Projection with Active Retrieval (SPAR), as a key component of the method lexicon. Drawing on the two dimensions (internal versus external...
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作者:Hosseini, Leila; Tang, Shaojie; Mookerjee, Vijay
作者单位:University of Houston System; University of Houston; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要:We consider an ad firm that acts on behalf of advertisers to execute mobile, in-app, ad campaigns. The firm commits to provide an advertiser a specified number of ad placements (impressions) on mobile apps, usually in a specified location, and within a specified time horizon. The supply for ad space arrives, in real time, in the form of bid requests from one or more mobile ad exchanges. The ad firm needs to bid on each impression in such a way that the goals of several ongoing campaigns are me...
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作者:Gao, Jia; Rong, Ying; Tian, Xin; Yao, Yuliang
作者单位:Dongbei University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Lehigh University
摘要:Although facial recognition (FR) payment technology can be more convenient for customers, it is still not consistently used by many customers in retail. Using transaction data from three retail chains, we develop econometric models and an estimation strategy for examining the social presence and herding effects that affect FR payment technology use. Our key findings are as follows: (1) Customers are less likely to use FR payment technology when more customers are in line behind them, waiting a...
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作者:Liu, Jialu; Pei, Siqi; Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael)
作者单位:Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Tsinghua University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要:The literature often explains female labor force participation through factors such as schooling, wage gaps, and fertility. In this study, we identify how technology induced time savings from household chores increase female labor force participation in South Korea. Using a leads-and-lags difference-in-differences model, we find that entry of an online food delivery platform significantly increased the female employment rate in the three years following the platform's entry, and the results st...
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作者:Tiwana, Amrit; Safadi, Hani
作者单位:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要:A pervasive, unbroached phenomenon is how once-modern systems age into unmaintainable albatrosses. We conceptualize this phenomenon from first-principles as system atrophy. We construct a trace data set from 190 million lines of evolving code in 1,354 systems spanning 25 years to corroborate it. Our middle-range theory introduces system atrophy into the conversation on information systems evolution, showing how small increments in modularity slow atrophy but lose potency with age. Atrophy even...
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作者:Suarez, Daniel; Gomez, Camilo; Medaglia, Andres L.; Akhavan-Tabatabaei, Raha; Grajales, Sthefania
作者单位:Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Sabanci University; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
摘要:A central challenge in disaster risk management (DRM) is that there are key dependencies and uncertainty between the decisions made at the mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery stages. Evaluating the impact of strategic decisions on the decisions and outcomes of subsequent stages is paramount to determine informed risk management policies (e.g., estimating the risk reduction that may be achieved by a mitigation strategy relative to its cost). Performing such analyses is difficult, n...
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作者:Zhou, Meizi; Zhang, Jingjing; Adomaviciusc, Gediminas
作者单位:Boston University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:Research studies have shown that recommender systems' predictions that are observed by users can cause biases in users' postconsumption preference ratings. This can happen as part of the standard, normal system use, where biases are typically caused by the system's inherent prediction errors (i.e., because of the less-than-perfect accuracy of recommendation methods). Because users' preference ratings are typically fed back to the system as training data for future predictions, this process is ...