[HTML][HTML] Supply chain resilience: A review from the inventory management perspective

Y Guo, F Liu, JS Song, S Wang - Fundamental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in global supply chains, leading to
economic damage and product shortages caused by demand surges and supply …

Fair dynamic rationing

V Manshadi, R Niazadeh, S Rodilitz - … of the 22nd ACM Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We study the allocative challenges that governmental and nonprofit organizations face when
tasked with equitable and efficient rationing of a social good among agents whose needs …

On the foundation of distributionally robust reinforcement learning

S Wang, N Si, J Blanchet, Z Zhou - arxiv preprint arxiv:2311.09018, 2023 - arxiv.org
Motivated by the need for a robust policy in the face of environment shifts between training
and the deployment, we contribute to the theoretical foundation of distributionally robust …

Use of real-time information to predict future arrivals in the emergency department

Y Hu, KD Cato, CW Chan, J Dong, N Gavin… - Annals of emergency …, 2023 - Elsevier
Study objective We aimed to build prediction models for shift-level emergency department
(ED) patient volume that could be used to facilitate prediction-driven staffing. We sought to …

Expanding service capabilities through an on-demand workforce

X Sun, W Liu - Operations Research, 2025 - pubsonline.informs.org
An on-demand workforce can greatly benefit a traditional call center by allowing it to adjust
its service capacity on demand quickly. Despite its conceptual elegance, the …

Minimax optimal estimation of stability under distribution shift

H Namkoong, Y Ma, PW Glynn - arxiv preprint arxiv:2212.06338, 2022 - arxiv.org
The performance of decision policies and prediction models often deteriorates when applied
to environments different from the ones seen during training. To ensure reliable operation …

Optimal routing under demand surges: The value of future arrival rates

J Chen, J Dong, P Shi - Operations Research, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Motivated by the growing availability of advanced demand forecast tools, we study how to
use future demand information in designing routing strategies in queueing systems under …

Optimization Automates Emergency Department Nurse Scheduling at Hartford Hospital

L Na, J Pauphilet, A Haddad-Sisakht… - … Journal on Applied …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
To optimize nurse staffing in the emergency department (ED), Hartford Hospital has been
collaborating with academics and consultants to schedule nurse shifts over each six-week …

Delta coverage: The analytics journey to implement a novel nurse deployment program

JE Helm, P Shi, M Drewes… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Amidst critical levels of nurse shortages, we partnered with Indiana University Health (IUH)
to pioneer a novel suite of advanced data and decision analytics to support a new model of …

[HTML][HTML] First deployment of artificial intelligence recommendations in orthopedic surgery

F Al Zoubi, K Kashanian, P Beaule… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Scant research has delved into the non-clinical facets of artificial intelligence (AI),
concentrating on leveraging data to enhance the efficiency of healthcare systems and …