Zhiwei Qin, Xiaocheng Tang, Yan Jiao, DiDi Research America, Mountain View, CAFan Zhang, Zhe Xu, Hongtu Zhu, Jieping Ye, Didi Chuxing, Beijing, China - Order dispatching (or order matching) is instrumental to the marketplace engine of a large-scale ride-hailing platform like DiDi. Due to the dyn...

Given by Matthew D. Bailey and Lucas A. Waddell from Bucknell University - Hopeful Journeys Educational Center is a non-profit school providing full-day one-on-one tutoring for students with autism. The hourly assignments of tutors to students are subject to numerous constraints and preference su...

Amanda Chu, Pinar Keskinocak, Georgia Tech-ISYE, Atlanta, GAMonica Villarreal, Denver Public Schools, Denver, CO - Over 25 million students take advantage of school bus services according to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics. School bus transportation is an integral service to st...

Given by Xiaojia Guo and Bert De Reyck, University College London and Yael Grushka-Cockayne of Harvard Business School at the 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA - Improving collaborative decision-making is at the heart of airport operations centers (APOCs), recently established in major E...

Omar Besbes, Adam N. Elmachtoub, Yunjie Sun, Columbia University - We describe a comprehensive approach to pricing analytics for reusable resources in the context of rotable spare parts, which are parts that can be repeatedly repaired and resold. Pricing rotable spare parts presents unique challe...