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Enhancing detection of labor violations in the agricultural sector: A multilevel generalized linear regression model of H-2A violation counts
Arezoo Jafari, Priscila De Azevedo Drummond, Dominic Nishigaya +4
Agricultural workers are essential to the supply chain for our daily food and yet, many face harmful work conditions, including garnished wages, and other labor violations. Workers…
Policy Interventions to Improve Inpatient Mental Healthcare Access: A Discrete Event Simulation Study
Nathan O. Adeyemi, Kayse Lee Maass, Amanda M. Graham +1
For a large portion of mental health patients, the Emergency Department is the first point of contact when in crisis and in need of urgent acute care. Unfortunately, those who have…
Queue Routing Strategies to Improve Equitable Housing Coordination in New York City
Yaren Bilge Kaya, Kayse Lee Maass
Runaway and homeless youth (RHY) are a group of youth and young adults who are at high risk of being exploited through human trafficking. Although access to housing and support ser…
Leveraging Priority Thresholds to Improve Equitable Housing Access for Unhoused-at-Risk Youth
Yaren Bilge Kaya, Kayse Lee Maass
Approximately 4.2 million youth and young adults experience homelessness each year in the United States and lack of basic necessities puts this population at high-risk of being tra…
On the Optimization of Benefit to Cost Ratios for Public Sector Decision Making
Frederick "Forrest" Miller, Yaren Bilge Kaya, Geri L. Dimas +3
Decision making in the public sector centers on delivering resources and services for the common good, emphasizing an expansive set of objectives such as equity and efficiency, bey…
Multi-Period Max Flow Network Interdiction with Restructuring for Disrupting Domestic Sex Trafficking Networks
Daniel Kosmas, Thomas C Sharkey, John E Mitchell +2
We consider a new class of multi-period network interdiction problems, where interdiction and restructuring decisions are decided upon before the network is operated and implemente…
Discrete Event Simulation to Evaluate Shelter Capacity Expansion Options for LGBTQ+ Homeless Youth
Yaren Bilge Kaya, Sophia Mantell, Kayse Lee Maass +4
The New York City (NYC) youth shelter system provides housing, counseling, and other support services to runaway and homeless youth and young adults (RHY). These resources reduce R…
A Transdisciplinary Approach for Generating Synthetic but Realistic Domestic Sex Trafficking Networks
Daniel Kosmas, Christina Melander, Emily Singerhouse +4
One of the major challenges associated with applying operations research (OR) models to disrupting human trafficking networks is the limited amount of reliable data sources readily…
Improving Access to Housing and Supportive Services for Runaway and Homeless Youth: Reducing Vulnerability to Human Trafficking in New York City
Yaren Bilge Kaya, Kayse Lee Maass, Geri L. Dimas +3
Recent estimates indicate that there are over 1 million runaway and homeless youth and young adults (RHY) in the United States (US). Exposure to trauma, violence, and substance abu…
Estimating Effectiveness of Identifying Human Trafficking via Data Envelopment Analysis
Geri L. Dimas, Malak El Khalkhali, Alex Bender +5
Transit monitoring is a preventative approach used to identify possible cases of human trafficking prior to exploitation while an individual is in transit or before one crosses a b…
Interdicting Restructuring Networks with Applications in Illicit Trafficking
Daniel Kosmas, Thomas C. Sharkey, John E. Mitchell +2
We consider a new class of max flow network interdiction problems, where the defender is able to introduce new arcs to the network after the attacker has made their interdiction de…
Perspectives on How To Conduct Responsible Anti-Human Trafficking Research in Operations and Analytics
Renata Konrad, Kayse Lee Maass, Geri L. Dimas +1
Human trafficking, the commercial exploitation of individuals, is a gross violation of human rights and harms societies, economies, health and development. The related disciplines…