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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…