This paper considers the allocation of resources, i.e., the amount of working hours of healthcare professionals (like physicians, nurses, clerks, social workers, nutritionists, pharmacists, etc.), to teams facing a stochastic demand in a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). To handle this...

This research examines the structural properties of the macroscopic model introduced in [AlShelahi and Saigal, 2018]. We present a theoretical analysis of the behavior of the macroscopic variables. In particular, we show that the model exhibits shock-like solutions, providing a new narrative for...

Early deployment of automated vehicles (AVs) may likely cause a loss of efficiency of the transportation system. However, after there are a sufficient number of such vehicles in the traffic stream, many benefits can be realized. It thus appears sensible to provide subsidies to promote the early...

In this paper, we provide a system of equations to measure investor impatience in financial markets. As in physics, we propose that there exists a measurable force created by external market factors, including investor impatience, which we equate with gravitational force. Using a physics-based...

Incentive contracts with multiple agents is a classical decentralized decision-making problem with asymmetric information. Contract design aims to incentivize noncooperative agents to act in the principal's interest over a planning horizon. We extend the single-agent incentive contract to a...

We study how supply risk, fixed supplier costs, financial constraints, and the dual role played by the suppliers as the providers of parts and the financiers of the manufacturer affect the relationship among firms in a supply chain, supplier selection, and supply chain performance. Using a...