International Meeting Proceedings

2018 INFORMS International Conference

A Better World Through O.R., Analytics, and AI

Paul Maglio and Robin Qiu, Proceedings Editors

General Session

Maritime Operations

Container Logistics Supported by Digital Platforms

 Rob Zuidwijk

Multicriteria Decision Making

Decentralized Determination of Design Variables Among Cooperative Designers for a General Aviation Aircraft Product Family

 Okpoti Evans Sowah, In-Jae Jeong, Seung Ki Moon

Operations and Decisions in Smart Manufacturing and Logistics

A Study of Order Allocation in Kiva-Based Order Picking System

 Ying Yu, Chefglin Yu, George Q. Huang

Operations/Marketing Interface

On the Effect of Wal-Mart’s Sales Disclosure on Supplier Performance

 Chenxi Zhou

Circular Economy

Evaluation of the Energy System through Data Envelopment Analysis: Assessment Tool for Paris Agreement

 Reza Nadimi, Koji Tokimatsu

Operations and Economics Interface

Subsidy Strategies for Coordinating Supply and Demand in Sharing Economy

 Bo Feng, Hao Jiang 

Incentive-Driven Two-Sided Matching and Spatial Capacity Allocation in Shared-Mobility Systems

 Ciao-Chu He, Tiantian Nie, Zuo-Jun Shen

Theory and Practice

Applying the Big Data of Electronic Tickets to Understand the Behaviors of Passengers with Senior Cards and with Non-Senior Cards in Public Transpo...

 Cheng-Yuan Ho, Yao-Nan Lien, Shu-Chuan Liao

Pricing and Revenue Management

xVA: Definition, Evaluation and Risk Management

 Lixin Wu, Dawei Zhang

Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics

A Deep Learning Approach to Bank Direct Marketing

 Te-Cheng Hsu, Jia-Siang Chen, Wei-Zhu Chen, Yu-Hsuan Chien, Sz-Wei Wu, Mahsa Ashouri, Che Lin, Galit Shmueli

Group Decision Making and Negotiation

An Integrated Method to Solve the Healthcare Facility Layout Problem with Area Constraint

 Ling Gai, Jiandong Ji

Fusions of Big Data, AI, Blockchain and FinTech Applications

Sales Forecasting from Heterogeneous Data Sources

 Hong-Han Shuai, Jui-Yi Tsai, Yi-Chun Chen
 

Contributed Sessions

The Solution Attractor Theory of Local Search System: The Traveling Salesman Problem Case

 Weiqi Li

Risks of Supply Disruption: An Evaluation of an Options Contract for Backup Supply

 Ashutosh Sardar, Stefan Minner 

Entrepreneurial Financing, Serial Venturing, and Experiential Learning

 Hong-Jen Chiu

Mobile Mechanic Scheduling with Time Windows and Time-Dependent Travel Speeds

 Xue Han, Rajat Agarwal

The Launch of Store Brands When Retailers Compete

 Han Xue

Optimal Redeeming Strategy of Stock Loans under Drift Uncertainty

 Zuo Quan Xu, Fahuai Yi

The Mediation Effect Validation between Cross-Cultural Management and Employee Identification

 Chia-Hao Ma, Sin-Hong Kang

Application of Crowdsourcing to Resolve Ambiguity in the Procurement Process

 Asadabadi Mehdi Rajabi

Is It Efficient to Buy the Index? A Worldwide Tour with Stochastic Dominance

 Olga Kolokolova, Olivier Le Courtois, Xia Xu

Better Generalization by Efficient Trust Region Method

 Hsieh Cho-Jui

Chance Constrained Programs with Mixture Distributions

 Zhaolin Hu, Wenjie Sun

Interpretable Perceived Topics in Online Customer Reviews for Product Management

 Aijing Xing, Nobuhiko Terui

Strategies of Mitigating Customer’s No-Shows at Restaurants

 Kuo-Pin Li, Shieh-Liang Chen, Wen-Hong Chiu, Wen-Cheng Lu

Continuously Updating Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

 Nikolai D. Lipscomb, Austin Z. Gratton, Yaw Chang, Cuixian Chen, Yishi Wang

Dominant Retailer, Lower Product Quality and Uninformed Customers

 Somnath Banerjee, Axel Stock

Exploring Profit Satisficing Approval Thresholds for Lending to the Underbanked

 Michael T. Hernke

Multi-Stage DNN Model Compression for IoT-Enabled Edge Devices

 Ching-Hu Hu, Jen-Wei Wang

Discovering the Factors Influencing Professional Baseball Box Office using Machine Learning

 Hwai-Jung Hsu

Predicting Depressive Symptoms in Students using Smartphone-based Sensor Data

 Saurabh Singh Thakur, Sadness Bhaisare, Ram Babu Roy

New Exceedance Counter with Application to Network Optimization

 Jeremy D. Jordan, Stan Urysev

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