Disruptive technologies and operations management in the Industry 4.0 era and beyond

TM Choi, S Kumar, X Yue… - Production and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In the Industry 4.0 era, automation and data analytics emerge as the major forces to
enhance efficiency in operations management (OM). Disruptive technologies, such as …

Quantitative investigation of wildlife trafficking supply chains: A review

BB Keskin, EC Griffin, JO Prell, B Dilkina, A Ferber… - Omega, 2023 - Elsevier
The illicit wildlife trade is a pervasive and global problem that has far-reaching impacts on
both society and the environment. Aside from threatening numerous species around the …

Operations research and analytics to combat human trafficking: A systematic review of academic literature

GL Dimas, RA Konrad, K Lee Maass, AC Trapp - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
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 …

An ensemble machine learning approach for forecasting credit risk of agricultural SMEs' investments in agriculture 4.0 through supply chain finance

A Belhadi, SS Kamble, V Mani, I Benkhati… - Annals of Operations …, 2021 - Springer
Credit risk imposes itself as a significant barrier of agriculture 4.0 investments in the supply
chain finance (SCF) especially for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Therefore, it is …

Supervised machine learning for theory building and testing: Opportunities in operations management

YC Chou, HHC Chuang, P Chou… - Journal of Operations …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Machine learning's (ML's) unique power to approximate functions and identify non‐
obvious regularities in data have attracted considerable attention from researchers in natural …

Unmasking human trafficking risk in commercial sex supply chains with machine learning

P Ramchandani, H Bastani, E Wyatt - Available at SSRN 3866259, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
The covert nature of sex trafficking provides a significant barrier to generating large-scale,
data-driven insights to inform law enforcement, policy and social work. We leverage massive …

Detecting human trafficking: Automated classification of online customer reviews of massage businesses

R Li, M Tobey, ME Mayorga… - Manufacturing & …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: Approximately 11,000 alleged illicit massage businesses (IMBs) exist
across the United States hidden in plain sight among legitimate businesses. These illicit …

Disentangling human trafficking types and the identification of pathways to forced labor and sex: an explainable analytics approach

E Eryarsoy, K Topuz, C Demiroglu - Annals of Operations Research, 2024 - Springer
Terms such as human trafficking and modern-day slavery are ephemeral but reflect
manifestations of oppression, servitude, and captivity that perpetually have threatened the …

An interdependent network interdiction model for disrupting sex trafficking networks

X Xie, F Aros‐Vera - Production and Operations …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We map the organized sex trafficking networks (STNs) into a network flow model and
develop an interdependent network interdiction model (NIM) to disrupt such networks. Our …

Improving access to housing and supportive services for runaway and homeless youth: Reducing vulnerability to human trafficking in New York City

YB Kaya, KL Maass, GL Dimas, R Konrad… - IISE …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recent estimates indicate that there are over a million runaway and homeless youth and
young adults (RHY) in the United States (US). Exposure to trauma, violence, and substance …