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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…
Extracting and Visualizing Wildlife Trafficking Events from Wildlife Trafficking Reports
Devin Coughlin, Maylee Gagnon, Victoria Grasso +5
Experts combating wildlife trafficking manually sift through articles about seizures and arrests, which is time consuming and make identifying trends difficult. We apply natural la…
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…
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…
Operations Research and Analytics to Combat Human Trafficking: A Systematic Review of Academic Literature
Geri L. Dimas, Renata A. Konrad, Kayse Lee Maass +1
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-h…
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…