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Central Asia including Kyrgyzstan is a disaster prone area, suffering from snow avalanches, landslides and flooding. Within the Tyan-Shan region, a mountainous region in Southern Kyrgyzstan, there is an increasing number of natural hazards over the last years. One of the possible causes of the...
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Purpose This paper aims to present a kinematics analysis method and statics based control of the continuum robot with mortise and tenon joints to achieve better control performance of the robot. Design/methodology/approach The kinematics model is derived by the geometric analysis method under...
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This paper proposes a procurement mechanism for a research and development (R&D) project, in which the stochastic nature of R&D is incorporated, and the potential agents needed to invest prior to the agent are selected. The incentive contract aims to attract the investment of potential agents...
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Revenue management decisions often have both strategic and tactical components. Strategic decisions happen first and set the broad and long-term operational context in which tactical decisions are frequently and repeatedly made, often on a weekly or daily basis. We consider a joint optimization...
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We consider an assortment optimization problem where the customer may purchase multiple products and possibly more than one unit of each product purchased. We adopt the customer consumption model based on the Multiple-Discrete-Choice (MDC) model proposed by Huh and Li (2021). We identify...
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Large-scale online platforms launch hundreds of randomized experiments (a.k.a. A/B tests) every day to iterate their operations and marketing strategies, while the combinations of these treatments are typically not exhaustively tested. It triggers an important question of both academic and...
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Nonprogressive diffusion describes the dissemination of behavior on a social network, where the agents are allowed to reverse their decisions as time evolves. It has a wide variety of applications in service adoption, opinion formation, epidemiology, etc. Building upon the rich studies in...
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Extending prior work studying how managers can lift productivity, we examine a low-cost, information-based intervention that is conducted by other agents in the work environment. Specifically, we study social nudges on online platforms whereby co-users connected with a worker on a platform (or...
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