M&SOM - Manufacturing AND Service Operations Management

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• Unmasking Human Trafficking Risk in Commercial Sex Supply Chains with Machine Learning AI翻译
  作者：Ramchandani, Pia; Bastani, Hamsa; Wyatt, Emily
  作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
  摘要：Problem definition: The covert nature of sex trafficking provides a significant barrier to generating large-scale, data-driven insights to inform law enforcement, policy, and social work. Existing research has focused on analyzing commercial sex sales on the internet to capture scalable geographical proxies for trafficking. However, ads selling commercial sex do not reveal information about worker consent. Therefore, it is challenging to identify risk for trafficking, which involves fraud, coe...
• Obligatory Responses to FDA Inspection Outcomes and Future Drug Shortages AI翻译
  作者：Wang, Yixin (Iris); Ball, George; Anand, Gopesh; Park, Hyunwoo
  作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Seoul National University (SNU)
  摘要：Problem definition: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the regulator tasked with overseeing two key dimensions of the drug supply chain: quality and shortages. Whereas the primary policy tool used by the FDA to oversee drug quality is recurring plant inspections, there are fewer similar tools used by the FDA to reduce drug shortages. In an effort to better understand the pernicious public health problem of drug shortages and the role of the FDA in reducing shortages, the U.S. Congress t...
• Reducing Overdose Deaths and Mitigating County Disparities: Optimal Allocation of Substance Use Treatment Centers AI翻译
  作者：Baucum, Matt; Harris, Matt; Kessler, Lawrence; Luc, Guanyi
  作者单位：Colorado State University System; Colorado State University Fort Collins; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
  摘要：Problem definition: Substance use disorder (SUD) is a pressing health concern in the United States, and connecting communities with treatment is a growing public health imperative. We study the optimal allocation of substance use treatment centers across counties within U.S. states over a multiyear time horizon. We use a three-part objective function that minimizes (i) statewide overdose deaths, (ii) mismatch between counties' treatment center access and overdose death rates (inequity), and (i...
• The Nonstationary Newsvendor with (and Without) Predictions AI翻译
  作者：An, Lin; Li, Andrew A.; Moseley, Benjamin; Ravi, R.
  作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
  摘要：Problem definition: The classic newsvendor model yields an optimal decision for a newsvendor selecting a quantity of inventory under the assumption that the demand is drawn from a known distribution. Motivated by applications such as cloud provisioning and staffing, we consider a setting in which newsvendor-type decisions must be made sequentially in the face of demand drawn from a stochastic process that is both unknown and nonstationary. All prior work on this problem either (a) assumes that...
• Frame by Fame: Content Creation on Short Video-Format Platforms AI翻译
  作者：Deshmane, Abhishek; Barriola, Xabier
  作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Tilburg University
  摘要：Problem definition: Short video format platforms like NetEase and TikTok are attention economies that host user-generated content, in the form of combined video and audio elements, and operate on principles of network virality. This study explores user content creation strategies by focusing on decisions around content release frequency and the incorporation of adopted content in newly generated creations. Methodology/results: We theoretically explore the role of the following three mechanisms...
• 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...
• Strategic Idling in Appointment Systems with Sequential Servers AI翻译
  作者：Goh, You Hui; Li, Zihao; Yan, Zhenzhen
  作者单位：Nanyang Technological University
  摘要：Problem definition: This paper addresses an appointment scheduling problem involving multiple sequential servers using a distributionally robust optimization (DRO) approach. Two decisions are optimized: the schedule for patient visits and an adjusting policy to rebalance customers' waiting time across servers. Methodology/results: We formulate the distributionally robust appointment scheduling problem in sequential-servers systems using conic optimization, incorporating service time correlatio...
• 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; Alphabet Inc.; Google Incorporated; Columbia University; 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...
• Simultaneous vs. Sequential: Optimal Assortment Recommendation in Multistore Retailing AI翻译
  作者：Liu, Yicheng; Chen, Xiao Alison; Liu, Yan; Wang, Zizhuo
  作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University System Of New Hampshire; University of New Hampshire; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  摘要：Problem definition: We study a multistore assortment planning problem in which a seller centrally decides the assortment of products in each store. Each store is visited by a certain fraction of customers. Upon arrival, customers observe the products offered in the current store. The seller can either (1) show products offered in other stores to customers simultaneously (called simultaneous offering strategy) or (2) show products offered in other stores to customers if they decide not to purch...