4 papers
Dynamic Cloud Service-Capacity Deployment with Costly Response Readiness
Ruihan Zhou, Xiaowei Zhang, Yijie Peng
AI product launches require service-capacity decisions before sufficient product-specific workload histories are available. Early service observations update beliefs about remainin…
Predicting Effects, Missing Distributions: Evaluating LLMs as Human Behavior Simulators in Operations Management
Runze Zhang, Xiaowei Zhang, Mingyang Zhao
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human behavior in business, economics, and the social sciences, offering a low-cost complement to laboratory experime…
Cold-Start Forecasting of New Product Life-Cycles via Conditional Diffusion Models
Ruihan Zhou, Zishi Zhang, Jinhui Han +2
Forecasting the life-cycle trajectory of a newly launched product is important for launch planning, resource allocation, and early risk assessment. This task is especially difficul…
Hierarchical AI Multi-Agent Fundamental Investing: Evidence from China's A-Share Market
Chujun He, Zhonghao Huang, Xiangguo Li +5
We present a multi-agent, AI-driven framework for fundamental investing that integrates macro indicators, industry-level and firm-specific information to construct optimized equity…