2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting Program

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INFORMS Nashville – 2016

2 - Assessing Patient Abuse At Nursing Homes Via Classification Of Online Reviews Jing Jian, MITRE Corporation, jjian@mitre.org 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. 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, dorothee.honhon@utdallas.edu 1 - Achieving Professional Success By Managing The Work/life Balance Dorothee Honhon, University of Texas at Dallas, dorothee.honhon@utdallas.edu 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. 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, eftekhar@asu.edu 1 - Leading Diverse Teams In Humanitarian Aid Field Offices: A Case For Intergroup Leadership Mojtaba Salem, Kuehne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany, Mojtaba.Salem@the-klu.org, 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, milad.keshvarifard@essec.edu, 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, acimovic@psu.edu 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. SC50 SC51

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, eftekhar@asu.edu, 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, acranmer@umass.edu Co-Chair: Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 160 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States, edbaker@ecs.umass.edu 1 - Benefit Cost And Distributional Effects Analysis For Solar PV In The United States Parth Vaishnav, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, parth.vaishnav@gmail.com, 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, jsiegel@umd.edu, 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, dalia.patino@duke.edu 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, acranmer@umass.edu, 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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