2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting Program

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2 - Assessing Patient Abuse At Nursing Homes Via Classification Of
Online Reviews
Jing Jian, MITRE Corporation,
This study demonstrates a correlation between a maximum entropy classifier’s
assessment of indications of patient abuse in online reviews for nursing homes
and the results of Medicare facility inspections. Over 8,000 reviews were
analyzed, representing over 4,000 facilities. Aggregating reviews for nursing
homes with similar numbers of deficiencies from the inspections indicates the
Pearson correlation coefficient approaches approximately 0.65 as the number of
reviews increases.
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212-MCC
Achieving Professional Success by Managing the
Work/Life Balance
Sponsored: Women in OR, MS
Sponsored Session
Chair: Dorothee Honhon, Associate Professor, University of Texas at
Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, United States,
1 - Achieving Professional Success By Managing The
Work/life Balance
Dorothee Honhon, University of Texas at Dallas,
The discussion will center around achieving research productivity and teaching
effectiveness while managing a family, dealing with society’s expectations and
peer pressure, dividing household duties, etc.
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213-MCC
Analytical Research in Humanitarian Service Delivery
Sponsored: Public Sector OR
Sponsored Session
Chair: Mahyar Eftekhar, Arizon State University, Arizon State
University, Tempe, AZ, 00, United States,
1 - Leading Diverse Teams In Humanitarian Aid Field Offices:
A Case For Intergroup Leadership
Mojtaba Salem, Kuehne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany,
, Maria Besiou, Niels Van Quaquebeke,
Louisa Meyer
The humanitarian system struggles sometimes with adequate operational
leadership. We study, via an online survey with 123 humanitarian practitioners,
how operational leadership can effectively work with the unique challenges of
having multiple and highly diverse teams in the humanitarian field offices. We
focus on the improvement of intergroup relations and reduction of potential
tensions between international and local staff in the same field office. It is shown
statistically that group orientated leadership has a positive impact on the
operational excellence of response.
2 - Policies For Fleet Operations And Procurement In Humanitarian
Development Programs
Milad Keshvari Fard, ESSEC Business School, Av Bernhard Hirsch
BP 50105, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, 95021, France,
, Felix Papier, Mahyar Eftekhar
Fleet management is known as a pivotal component of humanitarian service
delivery. Considering essential constraints (e.g. budget uncertainty, and
environmental conditions at the field), we design a heuristic to identify the
optimal fleet sizing and mission fulfillment over time. The objective of our model
is to minimize the social cost.
3 - Models And Metrics To Assess Humanitarian Response Capacity
Jason Acimovic, Penn State University,
The race to meet vital needs following sudden onset disasters leads response
organizations to establish stockpiles of inventory that can be deployed
immediately. Even though the value of one organization’s stock deployment is
contingent on others’ decisions, decision makers lack evidence regarding sector
capacity to assess the marginal contribution (positive or negative) of their action.
To our knowledge, there exist no metrics describing the system capacity across
many agents to respond to disasters. To address this gap, our analytical approach
yields new humanitarian logistics metrics based on stochastic optimization
models.
4 - Supply Management Strategies In Emergency Relief Operations
Mahyar Eftekhar, Arizona State University, BA 433, Main Campus,
P.O. Box 874706, Tempe, AZ, 85287, United States,
, Jeannette Song, Scott Webster
To fulfill beneficiaries’ demands, humanitarian organizations should design a cost-
efficient and time-effective procurement policy. We consider and analyze two
common supply management policies: pre-positioning and local-purchasing. Our
analysis takes demand characteristics, supply uncertainty, and budget limitations
into account.
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214-MCC
Public Policy for Energy and the Environment
Sponsored: Public Sector OR
Sponsored Session
Chair: Zana Cranmer, University of Massachusetts - Amherst,
160 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States,
Co-Chair: Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts - Amherst,
160 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States,
1 - Benefit Cost And Distributional Effects Analysis For Solar PV In
The United States
Parth Vaishnav, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,
United States, Ines Azevedo
Solar irradiance varies by location and time, as do the private benefits of solar PV.
The health, environmental and climate change (HECC) benefits of displacing a
unit of grid electricity production, which stem from reduced emissions of CO2,
NOx, SOx and PM also vary by time and location. We present a location-specific
cost-benefit analysis that quantifies the county-level costs, benefits, and
distribution of benefits for residential solar PV in the continental United States,
emphasizing an environmental justice perspective.
2 - Expert Elicitation Of The Proliferation Resistance Of Using Small
Modular Reactors For The Expansion Of Civilian Nuclear Systems
Jonas Siegel, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United
States, Elisabeth A Gilmore, Nancy Gallagher,
Steve Fetter
SMRs could allow for more proliferation resistant designs, manufacturing
arrangements and fuel cycle practices at widespread deployment compared to
large reactor designs. Here, we conduct an expert elicitation involving the
pairwise comparison of future nuclear energy systems that may be feasibly
deployed in 2050. The experts do not consistently judge the SMR deployment
scenario to have greater overall proliferation resistance than those that rely on
larger nuclear generation options. The experts identify two features that are
facilitated by SMRs, specifically international safeguards and the operation of
multinational fuel cycle facilities, as improving proliferation resistance.
3 - Power Plants Compliance With Co2 Emissions Regulations: The
Effect Of Policy Mechanisms, And Technological And
Fuel Price Uncertainty
Dalia Patino Echeverri, Duke University,
Under and Alternative Compliance Payment mechanism regulators set a CO2
emissions rate target, a fee (the ACP) to be paid for every ton of emissions in
excess of the target, and a deadline to permanently reduce emissions (by
installing controls, improving efficiency, reducing generation, or replacing with
low carbon technologies). We explore the effects of an ACP policy through the
use of a Stochastic Mixed Integer Linear Program representing the investment
decision of a regulated electric utility under different ACP designs, and fuel price,
and technology uncertainty.
4 - Valuing Offshore Wind Energy
Zana Cranmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA,
Erin Baker
Much attention has been paid to the environmental costs of offshore wind, such
as bird mortality. We are addressing the environmental benefit of offshore wind in
the context of climate change. Measuring this value is complex, as it depends
importantly on the policy environment and the energy system. We propose a
model for the environmental value of offshore wind and show that the policy
context determines whether that value is derived from reducing the cost of
abatement or reducing the damages associated with emissions. We use a global
integrated assessment model, GCAM, to estimate the value, with a focus on the
Atlantic coast of the US.
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