Operations research and analytics to combat human trafficking: A systematic review of academic literature. [PDF]
Human trafficking is a widespread and compound social, economic, and human rights issue occurring in every region of the world. While there have been an increasing number of anti-human trafficking works from the Operations Research and Analytics domains in recent years, no systematic review of this literature currently exists.
Dimas GL+3 more
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From Predicting Solar Activity to Forecasting Space Weather: Practical Examples of Research-to-Operations and Operations-to-Research [PDF]
The successful transition of research to operations (R2O) and operations to research (O2R) requires, above all, interaction between the two communities. We explore the role that close interaction and ongoing communication played in the successful fielding of three separate developments: an observation platform, a numerical model, and a visualization ...
A. Pulkkinen+29 more
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Modeling the impact of Covid-19’s stress and resilience on job burnout using Radial Basis Functions - Artificial Neural Network The case of knowledge-based companies [PDF]
Purpose: This study aims to model the impact of Covid-19’s stress and resilience on job burnout in knowledge-based companies.Design/methodology/approach: This study is typically quantitative and cross-sectional and in terms of purpose it is applied ...
Saba Amiri, Gholamhossein Roshani
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R2O2R Improvements Identified by United States Space Weather Forecasters
A communication deficit exists between the space weather research and forecast communities in the research‐to‐operations‐to‐research (R2O2R) pipeline.
E. C. Butler, J. M. Keller
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A comparison of Artificial Bee Colony algorithm and the Genetic Algorithm with the purpose of minimizing the total distance for the Vehicle Routing Problem [PDF]
Nowadays, the vehicle routing problem is one of the most important combinational optimization problems and it has received much attention because of its real application in industrial and service-related contexts.
Amel Mounia DJEBBAR, Chérifa BOUDIA
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The Power Simulation of Water-Cooled Central Air-Conditioning System Based on Demand Response
With rapid development of smart grid, terminal power load is paid more and more attention, especially that of air conditioning system, which constitute an integral part of summer peak electricity load.
Ligai Kang+3 more
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Economy of Scale in Russian Retail Electricity Market: On One Natural and One Unnatural Monopoly [PDF]
The paper presents an econometric analysis of the economy of scale in retail electricity markets in respect to the main service providers in the retail markets, which are territorial distribution grid companies and energy sales companies – guaranteeing ...
Maxim Valerievich Kukoverov
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Seat Assignments With Physical Distancing in Single-Destination Public Transit Settings
While the importance of physical (social) distancing in reducing the spread of COVID-19 has been well-documented, implementing similar controls in public transit remains an open question.
Jane F. Moore+4 more
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Decision making model for detecting infected people with COVID-19 [PDF]
The detection of people that are infected with COVID-19 is critical issue due to the high variance of appearing the symptoms between them. Therefore, different medical tests are adopted to detect the patients, such as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and ...
Mahmood Sahar Salman
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Synergies Between Operations Research and Quantum Information Science [PDF]
This article highlights synergies between quantum information science (QIS) and operations research for QIS-curious operations researchers (and vice-versa).
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