As of May 22, 2015
MANUFACTURING &
SERVICE OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT
CONFERENCE 2015
ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE
SCHEDULE
SUNDAY
JUNE 28
6:30 PMWelcome reception held at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
All sessions will take place at the Rotman School of Management located at
105 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Co-Chairs:
Opher Baron, University of Toronto
Joseph Milner, University of Toronto
Committee:
Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi, University of Waterloo
Philipp Afèche, University of Toronto
Oded Berman, University of Toronto
Timothy C. Y. Chan, University of Toronto
Andre Cire, University of Toronto
Harry Groenevelt, University of Rochester
Ming Hu, University of Toronto
Dmitry Krass, University of Toronto
Chi-Guhn Lee, University of Toronto
Edieal J. Pinker, Yale University
Vedat Verter, McGill University
MONDAY
JUNE 29
7:30 AM 8:00 AM to 8:30 AM 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM 10:30 AM to 12:00
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM 1:00 PM to 1:50 PM 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM 3:30 PM to 4:00 PM 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM Registration Open
Breakfast
Session Monday A
Coffee Break
Session Monday B
Lunch
MSOM Business Meeting in Desautels Hall
MSOM Fellows Plenary Session
Session Monday C
Coffee Break
Session Monday D
6:00 PM Reception and Dinner will take held at Hart House, University of Toronto Student Centre (7 Hart House Circle) at 6:00 PM.
TUESDAY
JUNE 30
7:30 AM Registration Open
8:00 AM to 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM Session Tuesday A
10:00 AM to 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM to 12:00
Session Tuesday B
12:00 Noon to 1:30 PM Lunch
12:15 PM to 1:15 PM KEYNOTE: Mr. Isadore Sharp, Founder and Chairman, Four Seasons
in Desautels Hall
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM Session Tuesday C
3:00 PM to 3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Session Tuesday D
MONDAY JUNE 29, 2015
8:30-10:00
SESSION A
TRACK 1
ROOM 127
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
TRACK 2
ROOM 133
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
TRACK 3
ROOM 1065
SERVICE
OPERATIONS
TRACK 4
ROOM LL1010
HEALTHCARE
TRACK 5
ROOM LL1020
REVENUE MGT. &
PRICING
TRACK 6
ROOM LL1025
SUSTAINABILITY
TRACK 7
ROOM LL1030
OM/MARKETING
TRACK 8
ROOM LL1035
OM/ECON
TRACK 9
ROOM LL1060
EMPIRICAL OM
Supply
Diversification
under Price
Dependent
Demand and
Random Yield
Worker Poaching
in a Supply Chain:
Enemy from
Within?
Efficient
Information
Heterogeneity
in a Queue
Online
Appointment
Reservation with
Patient Preferences
Revenue
Maximization for
Cloud Computing
Services
Lemons,
Trade-ins,
and Manufacturing
Evan Barlow, Gad Allon,
Achal Bassamboo
Ming Hu, Yang Li,
Jianfu Wang
Xinshang Wang,
Van-Anh Truong
Cinar Kilcioglu,
Costis Maglaras
Assortment
Optimization
under a Random
Swap based
Distribution over
Permutations
Model
The Impact of
Strategic Behavior
on Multi-Product
Exchange Markets
with Dynamic
Consumer
Preferences
Exploration–
Execution
Transition
In Product
Development:
An Experimental
Analysis.
Antoine Desir,
Vineet Goyal,
Danny Segev
Sam Kirshner, Yuri Levin,
Mikhail Nediak
Evgeny Kagan,
Stephen Leider,
William Lovejoy
Data-driven
Assortment
Optimization
Correlations
in Preferences
and the Design
of Centralized
Clearinghouses
Priority and
Predictability: The
Differential Effects
of Emergent and
Scheduled Hospital
Admissions
Lingxiu Dong,
Guang Xiao, Nan Yang
Buyer-Induced
Supplier
Collaboration
through
Commitment
to Low Prices
and Diversified
Sourcing
Supply Risk
Management
under Changing
Private
Information
Long Gao
Queueing
Networks with
Strategic RouteFlexible Agents
Andrew Frazelle,
Alessandro Arlotto,
Yehua Wei
Mericcan Usta,
Feryal Erhun,
Warren Hausman
Supply Networks
for Relational
Sourcing
Elena Belavina,
Karan Girotra
10:00-10:30
10:30-12:00
SESSION B
Can Supply Chain
Flexibility Facilitate
Information
Sharing?
Mohammad FazelZarandi, Oded Berman,
Dmitry Krass
Multitasking,
Multi-Armed
Bandits, and the
Italian Judiciary
Robert Bray, Decio
Coviello, Nicola Persico,
Andrea Ichino
A Data-Driven
Model of an
AppointmentGenerated Arrival
Process at an
Endocrinology
Clinic
Song-Hee (Hailey) Kim,
Ward Whitt,
Won Chul Cha
Managing
Appointmentbased Health
Services under
Patient Choices
Revenue
Management for Cloud
Computing
Services
Filippo Balestrieri,
Bernardo Huberman,
Julie Ward
Ximin (Natalie) Huang,
Atalay Atasu, Beril Tokay
Sustainable
Product Innovation
& the Impact
of Licensing
and Innovation
Spillover on
Degree of
Innovation
Dimitris Bertsimas,
Velibor Misic
Nick Arnosti
Jillian Berry Jaeker
Jen-Yi Chen,
Stanko Dimitrov
Cost-Efficient Cloud
Computing
Muhammad Amjad,
Vivek Farias, Andrew Li,
Devavrat Shah
Nan Liu,
Peter M. van de Ven,
Bo Zhang
The Effect of
Environmental
Regulation on
DfE Innovation:
Assessing Social
Cost in Primary
and Secondary
Markets
Gal Raz, Cheryl Druehl,
Vered Blass
COFFEE BREAK
The Impact
of Consumer
Search Cost
on Assortment
Planning and
Pricing
Dynamic Matching
in a Two-Sided
Market
Ming Hu, Yun Zhou
Is Over-promising
of Product
Features Desirable
When Consumers
Are Loss-averse?
Nishant Mishra,
Sami Najafi, Andy Tsay
Ozge Sahin,
Ruxian Wang
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
SERVICE
OPERATIONS
HEALTHCARE
REVENUE MGT. &
PRICING
SUSTAINABILITY
OM/MARKETING
OM/ECON
EMPIRICAL OM
The Optimal
Hedging Strategy
in a Competitive
Supply Chain with
Two substitutable
Commodities
Modeling
Agri-food Supply
Chain Innovations
in Developing
Markets
Observational
Learning and
Abandonment in
Congested Systems
Dynamic Patient
Scheduling for
Multi-Appointment
Health Care
Programs
The Use of
Markdown
Budgets in Fashion
Retailing
The Joint Impact of
Public Awareness
Campaigns
and System
Infrastructure on
E-Waste Collection
Multi-Channel
Retail in the
Presence of
Operational
Frictions
Free Riding in
Team Projects:
The Role of the
Leadership Style
The Measure of
an App: Virality,
Engagement, or
Both?
Morvarid Rahmani,
Guillaume Roels,
Uday Karmarkar
Kenneth Moon,
Haim Mendelson
Product Line
Design and
Capacity
Management: The
Role of Consumer
Behavior
Uncertainty
Peer-to-Peer
Marketplaces:
Get em’ Up and
Running
Ehsan Bolandifar,
Zhong Chen
Offshoring versus
Reshoring: A Tugof-War between
Operational
Flexibilities
Li Chen, Bin Hu
Fei Qin, Mehmet Gumus,
Saibal Ray
The exact
characterization of
optimal inventory
policies under
explicit privatefleet carriage costs
Liqing Zhang,
Sıla Cetinkaya
Outsourcing under
competition:
When to Choose
a Competitor as a
Supplier?
The Value of
Flexibility in
Robust LocationTransportation
Problem
Eda Kemahlioglu Ziya,
Olga Perdikaki
Amir Ardestani-Jaafari,
Erick Delage
John Yao, Costis
Maglaras, Assaf Zeevi
A Multi-Server
Fork-Join Network
in the Halfin-Whitt
Regime
Hongyuan Lu,
Guodong Pang
Adam Diamant,
Joseph Milner,
Fayez Quereshy
Appointment
Scheduling
with Two-Stage
Stochastic Service
Qingxia Kong,
Chung-Piaw Teo,
Zhichao Zheng
Alper Sen, Masoud
Talebian
A Contingent
Markdown with
Reservation
Strategy to
Deter Strategic
Consumer
Behavior
Jianmai Shi, Wenyi Chen,
Vedat Verter
Joint Acquisition,
Pricing and
Production Control
for a System with
Remanufacturing
Xiaomeng Guo,
Panos Kouvelis,
Danko Turcic
Channel
Construction in
Emerging Markets
Tinglong Dai, Jian Ni
Kai Huang, Xiang Zhu
Navaporn Surasvadi,
Christopher Tang,
Gustavo Vulcano
Timescales in
Modeling Call
Center Arrivals
Xiaowei Zhang,
L. Jeff Hong,
Peter W. Glynn
Flexible Hospitalwide Elective
Patient Scheduling
Daniel Gartner,
Rema Padman,
Rainer Kolisch
Markdown
Management and
Quality Perception:
Theory and
Experiment
Rim Hariss,
Georgia Perakis,
Wichinpong Sinchaisri,
Karen Zheng
Ashish Kabra, Karan
Girotra, Elena Belavina
Muge Yayla-Kullu,
Jennifer Ryan,
Jayashankar
Swaminathan
Trade-in
Remanufacturing,
Strategic Customer
Behavior, and
Government
Subsidies
Fuqiang Zhang, Renyu
Zhang
Effective and
Necessary-An
Individual Level
Study Of The
Revenue Sharing
Contract Vs.
Wholesale Price
Contract.
Julie Niederhoff, Panos
Kouvelis
Innovation
Internalization
in TechnologyIntensive Supply
Chains
Vish Krishnan, Junghee
Lee, Hyoduk Shin
Third-Party
Ownership
Business
Models and the
Performance of
Solar Energy
Systems
Jose Guajardo
MONDAY JUNE 29, 2015
12:00-2:00
LUNCH – Business Meeting/MSOM Fellows Plenary Session
2:00-3:30
SESSION C
TRACK 1
ROOM 127
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
TRACK 2
ROOM 133
INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT
TRACK 3
ROOM 1065
SERVICE
OPERATIONS
TRACK 4
ROOM LL1010
HEALTHCARE
TRACK 5
ROOM LL1020
REVENUE MGT. &
PRICING
TRACK 6
ROOM LL1025
SUSTAINABILITY
TRACK 7
ROOM LL1030
OM/MARKETING
TRACK 8
ROOM LL1035
OM/ECON
TRACK 9
ROOM LL1060
RETAILING
Single Sourcing
versus
Multisourcing:
The Role of Effort
Interdependence
and MetricOutcome
Misalignment
Inventory
Decisions in
the Presence
of Strategic
Consumers
When and How to
Test in Scheduling
Nonhomogeneous
Jobs
Smoothing
Resource
Utilization in a
Large Cancer
Center Infusion
Unit
The Operational
Advantages
of Threshold
Discounting Offers
Joint Planning of
Energy Storage
and Transmission
for Wind Energy
Generation
Analysis of
Discrete Choice
Models: A
Welfare-Based
Framework
On Public
Warnings in
Counterterrorism
Operations
How an E-Retailer
Can Profit from
the Right Free
Shipping Policy:
A Model and
Evidence
Shantanu Bhattacharya,
Alok Gupta,
Sameer Hasija
Managing Social
Responsibility in
Multi-tier Supply
Chains
Lu Huang,
Jeannette Song,
Robert Swinney
Global Operations
Sourcing Strategy:
A Chinese
Perspective
4:00-5:30
SESSION D
Behavioral
anomalies in
consumer wait-orbuy decisions and
their implications
for markdown
management
Retsef Levi,
Thomas Magnanti,
Yaron Shaposhnik
A Model of
Rational Retrials in
Queues
Shiliang Cui,
Xuanming Su,
Senthil Veeraraghavan
Manel Baucells,
Nikolay Osadchiy,
Anton Ovchinnikov
Behavioral
Decisions in
Inventory Systems
with Dual Sourcing
Option: An
Experiment
Tandem Queues
with RenegingAnalysis and
Insights
Mara Bloom, Inga
Lennes, Bethany Daily,
Peter Dunn, Retsef Levi,
Wendi Rieb,
A. Cecilia Zenteno
A Reservation
Policy For Medical
Diagnostic
Resource
Allocation
Simone Marinesi,
Karan Girotra, Serguei
Netessine
Guiyun Feng, Xiaobo Li,
Zizhuo Wang
Nitin Bakshi,
Edieal Pinker
Gerard Cachon,
Santiago Gallino,
Joseph (Jiaqi) Xu
Optimal Pricing
and Overbooking
of Reservations
Jaelynn Oh, Xuanming Su
Weifen Zhuang, Li Luo,
David D. Yao
Real Time Access
Control of Patient
Service in the
Pediatrics
Wei Qi, Yong Liang, ZuoJun Shen
Investments in
Renewable and
Conventional
Energy: Role
of Operational
Flexibility
Gurhan Kok,
Kevin Shang, Safak Yucel
Sunk Cost Effect in
Pricing of Service
with Uncertain
Completion Time
Feed-in Tariff
versus Rebate
for Renewable
Generation
Tamas Csermely,
Stefan Minner
Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi,
Jianfu Wang,
Opher Baron,
Oded Berman
Jie Song, Yunzhe Qiu,
Zekun Liu
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT
SERVICE
OPERATIONS
HEALTHCARE
REVENUE MGT. &
PRICING
SUSTAINABILITY
Robust MultiSourcing Supply
Chain Network
Design Problem
Optimal
multi-product
multi-period
replenishment
under order and
storage capacity
constraints
Contracting for
Continuity of
Mission Critical
Services
Optimal Vascular
Access Choice
for Patients on
Hemodialysis
Cooperation
between Ship
Liners to Reduce
Fuel Emissions
Marc Jansen, Nektarios
Oraiopoulos, Daniel
Ralph
M. Reza Skandari,
Steven Shechter, Nadia
Zalunardo
Wine Analytics:
Fine Wine Pricing
and Selection
under Weather
and Market
Uncertainty
Yao Chen, Morris Cohen,
Shiliang Cui, Ming Dong,
Shaoxuan Liu, David
Simchi-Levi
3:30-4:00
Yang Zhang,
Benny Mantin,
Yaozhong Wu
Guangwen Kong,
Chunyang Tong,
Sampath Rajagopalan
Ruben Lobel,
Volodymyr Babich
Dynamic
Management of
Opaque Selling
When Selling
to Boundedly
Rational
Customers
The Perils
of Sharing
Information in a
Trade Association
under a Strategic
Wholesale Price
Formulation,
Motivation,
and Parameter
Estimation for the
d-Level Nested
Logit Model
Minimum
Advertised Price
Policy: Economic
Analysis and
Implications
Zhe Yin, Tingliang Huang
Noam Shamir,
Hyoduk Shin
Inventory
Showrooms and
Information in
Omni-channel
Retail
David Bell,
Santiago Gallino,
Toni Moreno
Liang Ding,
Roman Kapuscinski,
Ozge Sahin
Estimating product
substitution
and basket
abandonment
effects in retail
stores: Implications
for assortment
planning
OM/MARKETING
OM/ECON
RETAILING
A Unified
Framework
for Scheduling
Guaranteed
Targeted Display
Advertising
under Reach
and Frequency
Requirements
The Impact of
Competition for
Common Customer
Base on Agent’s
Compensation
Plan
Sell Directly or
Indirectly? Channel
Structure and
Dynamic Pricing
with Strategic
Customers
Elnaz Jalilipour Alishah,
Yongpin Zhou,
Hamed Mamani
Qianbo Yin, Jiye Xue,
Sean X. Zhou
Dynamic Reserve
Prices for
Repeated Auctions:
Learning from Bids
On Using
Precursor
Events for Risk
Management
Online fresh
grocery retail: A la
carte or buffet?
Yash Kanoria,
Hamid Nazerzadeh
Heikki Peura,
Nitin Bakshi
Optimal Contracts
for Intermediaries
in Online
Advertising
Win-Win Capacity
Allocation
Contracts in CoProduction and
Co-Distribution
Alliances
Guang Li, Paat
Rusmevichientong,
Huseyin Topaloglu
Vidya Mani, Saurabh
Bansal, Doug Thomas
COFFEE BREAK
Yongzhen Li, Jia Shu,
Miao Song, Jiawei
Zhang, Huan Zheng
Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi,
Shrutivandana Sharma
Optimizing Site
Qualification
Across a Supply
Network
Distribution-free
Inventory Control
for Perishable
Products
Payment for
Results: Signaling
Efficiency in NonProfit Operations
Patients’
Perception Bias
and Its Impact on
Hospital Choice
Candi Yano, Bo LIao
Esther Mohr
Milind G. Sohoni,
Sripad Devalkar
Guihua Wang, Jun Li,
Wallace Hopp
Facility Location
and Capacity
Choice in
Congested and
Unreliable Systems
The Multi-Product
Newsvendor
Problem with
Customer Choice
Cost-PerImpression Pricing
for Display
Advertising
Amr Farahat,
Joonkyum Lee
Kristin Fridgeirsdottir,
Sami Najafi-Asadolahi
Bundled Payments
vs. Fee-for-Service:
Impact of Payment
Scheme on
Performance
Opher Baron,
Oded Berman,
Yael Deutsch
Elodie Adida,
Hamed Mamani,
Shima Nassiri
Mert Hakan Hekimoglu,
Burak Kazaz,
Scott Webster
Optimal Seat
Pricing With
Multiple Classes
& Why Economy
Seats Feel so Small
Ioannis Stamatopoulos,
Christos Tzamos
Fair Allocation for
Online Advertising
Mohammad Hossein
Bateni, Yiwei Chen,
Dragos Ciocan,
Vahab Mirrokni
Afshin Mansouri,
Emel Aktas
Ali Hojjat, John Turner,
Suleyman Cetintas,
Jian Yang
Business Models
for Off-Grid
Energy Access
Bhavani Shanker Uppari,
Serguei Netessine,
Ioana Popescu
Coordinated
Investment in
Clean Energy
Technologies under
Critical Material
R&D
Ananth Iyer,
Aditya Vendantam
Ozan Candogan,
Santiago Balseiro
Guillaume Roels,
Chris Tang
Elena Belavina,
Ashish Kabra,
Karan Girotra
Retailing with
Opaque Products
Adam Elmachtoub,
Yehua Wei
TUESDAY JUNE 30, 2015
8:30-10:00
SESSION A
TRACK 1
ROOM 127
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
TRACK 2
ROOM 133
INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT
TRACK 3
ROOM 1065
SERVICE
OPERATIONS
TRACK 4
ROOM LL1010
HEALTHCARE
TRACK 5
ROOM LL1020
REVENUE MGT. &
PRICING
TRACK 6
ROOM LL1025
SUSTAINABILITY
TRACK 7
ROOM LL1030
HEALTHCARE
TRACK 8
ROOM LL1035
CROWDFUNDING
& CONTESTS
TRACK 9
ROOM LL1060
DATA-DRIVEN
DECISION-MAKING
Supply Chain
Disruptions:
Evidence from the
Great East Japan
Earthquake
Clearing control
policies for MAP
inventory process
with partially
satisfied demand
Dynamic Service
Management of
One-Way Car
Sharing Systems
Contracting in
Medical Equipment
Maintenance
Services: an
Empirical
Investigation
Entrepreneurial
Financing:
Crowdfunding,
Venture Capital,
and Banks
Exploiting Big
Data in Logistics
Risk Assessment
via Bayesian
Nonparametrics
Yonit Barron
Implementation
Strategy
alternatives for
Coproductive
services - a
comparative study
Selling Passes
to Strategic
Customers
Vasco Carvalho,
Makoto Nirei,
Yukiko Saito,
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
Impact of Age on
Performance of
Indian Information
Technology
Enabled Services
(ITES) Enterprises
Dhanashree Potey,
Ramanathan A,
Hema Santhanam
S Sivakumar,
B Mahadevan
Volodymyr Babich,
Gerry Tsoukalas
Yan Shang,
David Dunson,
Jing-Sheng Song
Push vs. Pull: How
to Best Allocate
Supply Risk in
Random Yield
Supply Chains
Multi-Period
Stock Allocation
Via Robust
Optimization
Cannibalization
within B2B
Secondary
Markets for IT:
Evidence from a
Field Experiment
Designing
hospital and
patient incentives
for reducing
readmissions
when care is
co-produced
A Dynamic Model
of Crowdfunding
Estimating
Correlated
Valuations for
Data-Driven
Bundle Pricing
with Copula
Inference
Panos Kouvelis,
Guang Xiao
Peter Jackson,
John Muckstadt
10:30-12:00
SESSION B
So Yeon Chun,
Dan Andrei Iancu, Nikos
Trichakis
Dimitrios Andritsos,
Christopher Tang
Ben Lethem, Wei Sun,
Anshul Sheopuri
SERVICE
OPERATIONS
HEALTHCARE
REVENUE MGT. &
PRICING
SUSTAINABILITY
OM/FINANCE
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
DATA-DRIVEN
DECISION-MAKING
Sequential
Capacity Allocation
under Order
Manipulation:
Efficiency and
Fairness
Some Specially
Structured
Assemble-to-Order
Systems
Pricing
Service with
Heterogeneous
Quality and
Customer Taste
Discrete workshifts in a
continuous world:
An empirical study
of emergency
physician
productivity
Pricing and Market
Timing Flexibility
in Product
Launches
Responsible
Sourcing via
Vertical Integration
and Supply Chain
Partnership
The Midas Touch:
Operational
Flexibility and
Financial Hedging
in the Gold Mining
Industry
On Coordinating
Contracts in
Decentralized
Sequential Projects
The Newsvendor
under Demand
AmbiguityAversion: A Data
and InformationDriven Approach
Maxime Cohen,
Swati Gupta, Jeremy J
Kalas, Georgia Perakis
Collaborative
Consumption:
Strategic and
Economic
Implications of
Product Sharing
Sarang Deo, Itai Gurvich,
Eric Park
Saeed Alaei,
Azarakhsh Malekian,
Mohamed Mostagir
INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT
Yichuan Ding,
Dongdong Ge, Simai He,
Chris Ryan
When Graph
Theory Meets
Dynamic Pricing
Saif Benjaafar,
Guangwen Kong,
Xiang Li
Reducing
Ambulance
Diversions: Policy
Intervention in Los
Angeles County
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
Ryan Buell,
Dennis Campbell
A non-asymptotic
approach to
analyzing kidney
exchange graphs
Modeling and
Analysis of
Collaborative
Consumption in
Peer-to-Peer Car
Sharing
Tian Chan,
Francis de Vericourt,
Omar Besbes
Shaokuan Chen,
Ganesh Janakiraman,
Alp Muharremoglu
Behnam Fahimnia,
Armin Jabbarzadeh
10:00-10:30
Dynamic
Managament of
Loyalty Programs
Guangrui Ma,
Ho-Yin Mak
The Persistence
of Customer
Incompatibility:
Evidence From
a Retail Bank
Acquisition
Marrying
Supply Chain
Sustainability
and Resilience: A
Dynamic Tradeoff
Analysis
Can a Zero-Margin
Demand Stream
Increase Profits?
Wedad Elmaghraby,
Anandasivam Gopal,
Ali Pilehvar
Jue Wang, Yuri Levin,
Mikhail Nediak
Modeling the
Ethics of Donating
Dated Medical
Supplies
Incentives in
Contests with
Heterogenous
Solvers
Quan Zhou, Tava Olsen
Ersin Korpeoglu,
Soo-Haeng Cho
Baojun Jiang, Lin Tian
A Statistical
Learning Approach
to Personalization
in Revenue
Management
Zachary Owen, David
Simchi-Levi, Clark Pixton,
Xi Chen
COFFEE BREAK
Paul Zipkin
Kun Soo Park,
Bosung Kim, Seyed
Iravani
Online Resource
Allocation with
Limited Flexibility
Arash Asadpour,
Xuan Wang,
Jiawei Zhang
Make-to-Order
vs. Make-toStock When
Firms Compete,
Input Costs, and
Demand are
Stochastic
Guang Xiao,
Panos Kouvelis,
Danko Turcic
Managing the
Supply-Demand
Mismatch with
Complementary
Product Flows
Alex Angelus,
Ozalp Ozer
Approximate
dynamic
programming
for lateral
transshipment
problems in multilocation inventory
systems
Joern Meissner,
Olga Rusyaeva
Pengfei Guo,
Weixiang Huang,
Wenhui Zhou
Pricing and
Prioritizing
Time- Sensitive
Customers with
Heterogeneous
Demand Rates
Ricky Roet-Green,
Joseph Milner, Opher
Baron, Philipp Afeche
Asymptotically
Optimal Dynamic
Pricing in
Observable
Queues
Jeunghyun Kim,
Ramandeep Randhawa
Sechan Oh, Ozalp Ozer
Robert Batt,
Diwas KC, Brad Staats,
Brian Patterson
Investigating
the service
characteristics for
specialists treating
chronically ill
patients with
heterogeneous
utilities
Pricing With
Limited Knowledge
of Demand
Maxime Cohen,
Georgia Perakis,
Robert Pindyck
Balaraman Rajan,
Tolga Tezcan,
Abraham Seidmann
Scheduling
operating rooms
in overcrowded
Chinese hospitals
using a sample
average
approxatimation
method
Guanlian Xiao,
Wllem van Jaarsveld,
Joris van De Klundert
Innovative
dynamic pricing:
The potential
benefits of earlypurchase reward
programs
Yossi Aviv,
Mike Mingcheng Wei
Adem Orsdemir, Bin Hu,
Vinayak Deshpande
Does “Green”
Performance Affect
Market Share in
the Automotive
Industry? An
Empirical Study
Kejia Hu,
Sunil Chopra
Firm and Nonprofit
Levers to Improve
Suppliers’
Environmental
Performance
Ozgen Karaer, Tim Kraft,
John Khawam
Panos Markou,
Daniel Corsten
Asset Selling
under Financial
Constraints
Derek Wang,
Hyun-Soo Ahn,
Owen Wu
Ted Klastorin,
Michael Wagner,
Tony Chen
Assemble-ToOrder and Project
Management
under Throughput
time Uncertainty:
More Newsvendor
Equations
Ton de Kok
Two-Stage
Portfolio
Optimization
with HigherOrder Conditional
Measures of Risk
Sitki Gulten,
Andrzej Ruszczynski
Soroush Saghafian,
Brian Tomlin
A Data-Driven
Approach to
Personalized
Bundle
Recommendation
Pavithra Harsha,
Anna Papush,
Georgia Perakis
Prediction vs
Prescription in
Data-Driven
Pricing
Dimitris Bertsimas,
Nathan Kallus
TUESDAY JUNE 30, 2015
12:00-1:30
LUNCH – KEYNOTE: Mr. Isadore Sharp, Founder and Chairman, Four Seasons 1:30-3:00
SESSION C
TRACK 1
ROOM 127
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
TRACK 2
ROOM 133
INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT
TRACK 3
ROOM 1065
SERVICE
OPERATIONS
TRACK 4
ROOM LL1010
HEALTHCARE
TRACK 5
ROOM LL1020
REVENUE MGT. &
PRICING
TRACK 6
ROOM LL1025
SUSTAINABILITY
TRACK 7
ROOM LL1030
OM/FINANCE
TRACK 8
ROOM LL1035
OM/SOCIAL
NETWORKS
TRACK 9
ROOM LL1060
DATA-DRIVEN
DECISION-MAKING
Analyzing
the Effect of
Delivery Time
Differentiation
on Supply Chain
Performance in
the Automotive
Industry
Sampling-based
Approximation
Algorithms for
Data Driven
Capacitated
Stochastic
Inventory Control
Models
Service Revenue
Management
When Customers
Prefer Crowds
A Stochastic
Programming
Model for
Casualty Response
Planning during
Catastrophic
Health Events
Analysis of
consumers’
purchase timing
decisions
Supply Chain
Social and
Environmental
Impacts:
Measurement,
Reduction and
Disclosure
Purchase Order
Financing: Credit
Capacities and
Supply Chain
Consequences
Managing Service
Systems in the
Presence of Social
Networks
Estimating
Continuous
Distributions by
Quantifying Errors
in Probability
Judgments for
Fixed Values
Henning Olbert,
Margarita ProtopappaSieke, Ulrich Thonemann
Wang Chi Cheung,
David Simchi-Levi
Quality
Enforcement in
the Supply Chains
with Imperfect
Monitoring and
Challenging Legal
Enforcement of
Penalties
Bayesian
Inventory
Control Using
Leading Economic
Indicators
Aakil Caunhye,
Xiaofeng Nie
Online DecisionMaking with
High-Dimensional
Covariates
Hamsa Bastani,
Managing the size
and growth of a
social network:
Exclusivity and
habit formation
Demand
Forecasting
When Customers
Consider, Then
Choose
Chungsang Tom Lam,
Christopher Thomas Ryan
Srikanth Jagabathula,
Ying Liu
Aydin Alptekingolu,
John H. Semple
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT
SERVICE
OPERATIONS
HEALTHCARE
REVENUE MGT. &
PRICING
HUMANITARIAN
OM
OM/FINANCE
OM/SOCIAL
NETWORKS
OPTIMIZATION
Dominant
or Balanced
Downstream
Market? An
Upstream
Perspective
Multi-Item
Inventory Systems
with Selective
Use of Imperfect
AdvanceDemand
Information
Is Technology
Eating Nurses?
- Evidences from
Nursing Homes
Staffing and
Process Quality
A Quick Reaction
Vehicle Routing
Problem for
Humanitarian
Logistics
Dynamic
Pricing Under
Competition: An
Empirical Study
of the Hospitality
Industry
On the WorstCase Performance
of Uniform
Co-payments
in Market
Consumption
A CVaR approach
to planning crude
oil tanker fleet
Social Networks
and Conspicuous
Consumption
Heuristic Adaptive
Replacement
Policies
Atiq Siddiqui,
Manish Verma
John Wilson
Yuhong He, Saibal Ray,
Shuya Yin
Engin Topan,
Geert-Jan van Houtum,
Tarkan Tan
Feng Lu, Huaxia Rui,
Avi Seidmann
Alex Nikulkov,
Kostas Bimpikis,
Yonatan Gur
Gonzalo Romero,
Retsef Levi,
Georgia Perakis
Ruslan Momot,
Elena Belavina,
Karan Girotra
Effects of
Downstream Entry
in Supply Chains
with Spot Markets
Strategic Inventory
with Uncertain
Demands
The Impact
of Delay
Announcements on
Hospital Network
Coordination and
Waiting Times
Interpreting “3
seats left”: An
empirical analysis
of airline inventory
announcements
Donor ProductSubsidies
to Increase
Consumption:
Implications
of Consumer
Awareness and
Profit-Maximizing
Intermediaries
Global Sourcing
under Exchangerate Uncertainty
Strategic Timing of
Content in Online
Social Networks
Shahryar Gheibi,
Burak Kazaz,
Scott Webster
Tauhid Zaman,
Sina Modaresi,
Juan Pablo Vielma
Simulation
Optimization
via Robust
Optimization
Corn or Soybean?
Dynamic Farmland
Allocation Under
Uncertainty
A Modified Bass
Model for Product
Growth in Social
Networks
Onur Boyabatli,
Javad Nasiry,
Yangfang Zhou
Vahideh Manshadi,
Ramesh Johari,
Sidhant Misra
Wenqi Hu, Carri Chan,
Jose Zubizarreta,
Gabriel Escobar
An Analysis of
Time of Use Pricing
in Electricity
Supply Chains
Baris Ata,
Asligul Serasu Duran,
Ozge Islegen
Saed Alizamir, Sang Kim
Improvement
of Supply Chain
Transparency and
Sustainability with
NGO Scrutiny
Shi Chen, Qinqin Zhang,
Yong-Pin Zhou
Operationalizing
Financial
Covenants
The Effect of Social
Preferences and
Group Identity
on Supply Chain
Forecasting and
Ordering
Felix Papier,
Ulrich Thonemann,
Torsten Gully
Alain Bensoussan,
Bharadwaj Kadiyala,
Özalp Özer
Duygu Gunaydin,
Hau Lee, Kostas Bimpikis
Early warning
systems for ICU
admissions
Kaitlin Daniels,
Gerard Cachon,
Ruben Lobel
Managing a
Responsible
Supply Chain
under Threat of
Public Disclosure
Asa Palley,
Saurabh Bansal
The Exponomial
Choice Model: A
New Alternative
for Assortment
and Price
Optimization
Marco Bijvank,
Zhankun Sun
The Role of
Surge Pricing:
Managing Supply
and Competition
in a Peer-to-Peer
Service Network
Gad Allon,
Dennis J. Zhang
Learn and ScreenA Strategic
Approach to
Collaborative
Inventory
Management
Arvind Sainathan
Wait time
announcements
at hospital
emergency
departments
Basak Kalkanci,
Erica Plambeck
Anne Lange,
Fehmi Tanrisever,
Matthew Reindorp
Wanshan Zhu,
Xiaobo Zhao
Crop
Diversification
in Agricultural
Supply Chains
3:30-5:00
SESSION D
Emre Ertan, Ozalp Ozer,
Kathryn Stecke
Prioritization and
Price-Plus-Delay
Competition with
Self-Selecting,
Heterogeneous,
Time-Sensitive
Customers
Mariya Bondareva,
Edieal Pinker
3:00-3:30
Michael Pavlin,
Mohammedreza
Farahani
Dan Andrei Iancu,
Nikos Trichakis,
Gerry Tsoukalas
The Financial
Holding Cost of
Inventory
S. Alex Yang, Lei Xie,
Fehmi Tanrisever,
Xiaoying Liang
Mohsen Bayati
COFFEE BREAK
Wei Xing, Qi Zhang,
Xuan Zhao, Liming Liu
Yigal Gerchak
Jing Dong,
Galit B. Yom-Tov,
Elad Yom-Tov
The Adoption of
Core (Upstream)
Technologies in
Consumer Markets
Configuring
Surgical
Instrument Trays
to Reduce Costs
Ayhan Aydin,
Rodney Parker
Greg Dobson,
Anthony Froix,
Abraham Seidmann,
Vera Tilson
Oded Berman,
Dmitry Krass,
Alireza Rahimi-Vahed
Outpatient
Appointment
Systems: A Review
of Analytical Work
Amir Ahmadi Javid,
Zahra Jalali,
Kenneth Klassen
Katherine Ashley,
Pnina Feldman, Jun Li
Dimitris Bertsimas,
Nataly Youssef
Terry Taylor,
Wenqiang Xiao
Dynamic Pricing
and Product
Differentiation
with Cost
Uncertainty and
Learning
Designing Narrow
Networks plans
for healthcare:
a bi-objective
optimization
approach
N. Bora Keskin,
John R. Birge
Victoire Denoyel,
Aurelie Thiele,
Laurent Alfandari
Robust Dynamic
Pricing With
Strategic
Customers
Yiwei Chen, Vivek Farias
Interventions for
an ArtemisininBased Malaria
Medicine Supply
Chain
Burak Kazaz,
Scott Webster,
Prashant Yadav
Optimal Resource
Allocation under
General Coherent
Distortion Risk
Measures
Chaithanya Bandi,
Paat Rusmevichientong
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