Data analytics in operations management: A review

VV Mišić, G Perakis - Manufacturing & Service Operations …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Research in operations management has traditionally focused on models for understanding,
mostly at a strategic level, how firms should operate. Spurred by the growing availability of …

Machine learning in marketing: Overview, learning strategies, applications, and future developments

VA Brei - Foundations and Trends® in Marketing, 2020 - nowpublishers.com
The widespread impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in many
segments of society have not yet been felt strongly in the marketing field. Despite such …

Offline multi-action policy learning: Generalization and optimization

Z Zhou, S Athey, S Wager - Operations Research, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
In many settings, a decision maker wishes to learn a rule, or policy, that maps from
observable characteristics of an individual to an action. Examples include selecting offers …

Nonconvex low-rank tensor completion from noisy data

C Cai, G Li, HV Poor, Y Chen - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study a completion problem of broad practical interest: the reconstruction of a low-rank
symmetric tensor from highly incomplete and randomly corrupted observations of its entries …

Predicting with proxies: Transfer learning in high dimension

H Bastani - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Predictive analytics is increasingly used to guide decision making in many applications.
However, in practice, we often have limited data on the true predictive task of interest and …

AI and personalization

O Rafieian, H Yoganarasimhan - Artificial Intelligence in Marketing, 2023 - emerald.com
This chapter reviews the recent developments at the intersection of personalization and AI in
marketing and related fields. We provide a formal definition of personalized policy and …

Policy learning" without''overlap: Pessimism and generalized empirical Bernstein's inequality

Y **, Z Ren, Z Yang, Z Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2212.09900, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper studies offline policy learning, which aims at utilizing observations collected a
priori (from either fixed or adaptively evolving behavior policies) to learn the optimal …

Synthetic interventions

A Agarwal, D Shah, D Shen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2006.07691, 2020 - arxiv.org
Consider a setting with $ N $ heterogeneous units (eg, individuals, sub-populations) and $
D $ interventions (eg, socio-economic policies). Our goal is to learn the expected potential …

Consumer preference analysis: A data-driven multiple criteria approach integrating online information

M Guo, X Liao, J Liu, Q Zhang - Omega, 2020 - Elsevier
Multiple criteria approaches can assist the product manager to know the consumer
preferences in the context of e-commerce. Consumer preference analysis explains what …

Policy learning with adaptively collected data

R Zhan, Z Ren, S Athey, Z Zhou - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
In a wide variety of applications, including healthcare, bidding in first price auctions, digital
recommendations, and online education, it can be beneficial to learn a policy that assigns …