Data on population movements can be helpful in designing targeted policy responses to curb epidemic spread. However, it is not clear how to exactly leverage such data and how valuable they might be for the control of epidemics. To explore these questions we study a spatial epidemic model that...

Chapter 1. Primer on Operations, Finance, and Their Interface -- Chapter 2. Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing -- Chapter 3. Blockchain -- Chapter 4. FinTech and OpTech -- Chapter 5. Supply Chain Finance -- Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robots -- Chapter 7. Analytics, IoT...

Clinical trials have traditionally followed a fixed design, in which randomization probabilities of patients to various treatments remains fixed throughout the trial and specified in the protocol. The primary goal of this static design is to learn about the efficacy of treatments....