Conference Program

TimeProgram
08:25 – 11:20Opening Ceremony
08:25 - 08:40Welcome Remarks
Prof Max Z J Shen
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Chair Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
The University of Hong Kong
Prof Mingming Leng
General Chair, Conference Committee of 2022 POMS-HK Conference
Dean of Faculty of Business and Professor of Computing and Decision Sciences
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
08:40 - 09:40

Keynote Speech I
“Analytics for Tackling Covid-19”
 

Prof Georgia Perakis

Editor-in-Chief, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
William F. Pounds Professor of Management
Professor, Operations Management and Operations Research and Statistics
MIT Sloan School of Management

 09:40 - 10:20Break
10:20 - 11:20

Keynote Speech II
“Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Production and Operations Management”
 

Prof John Birge
Editor-in-Chief, Operations Research
Hobart W. Williams Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

13:00 - 14:30Concurrent Session 1 & Career Fair
Section 1A

Data-driven Operations Management
Session Chair: Zuneera Umair, Hong Kong Shue Yan University


Designing a System for Data-driven Risk Assessment of Solar Projects
Zuneera Umair* , Inez Zwetsloot, Marco Kin Ming Luk, Daniil Kostromin

 

Data-driven Inventory Control with Nonperishable Items using Sample Average Approximation
Yufei Zhao* , Xiangyu Gao

 

Credit Rating Prediction Through Supply Chains: A Machine Learning Approach
Zhaocheng Zhang*, Jing Wu, Sean Xiang Zhou

 

IoT for Smart Mobility: Hong Kong Perspective
Chun-Hung Cheng*

Section 1B

Supply Chain Management (I)
Session Chair: Tianqi Song, City University of Hong Kong
 

Managing Panic Buying with Bayesian Persuasion
Tianqi Song*, Biying Shou, Pengfei Guo

 

Impact of Disruption on Supply Chain Network: Network Structure and Disruption Location
Yixin Zhu* , Hongfan Chen, Sean Xiang Zhou

 

Replenishment of Emergency Supplies using Dedicated and Pooled Systems
Fang Liu* , Linqiu Li, Arvind Sainathan, Fan Wang

 

Resource Allocation in Correlated Competitions
Jiahao He* , Jiheng Zhang, Rachel Q. Zhang

Section 1C

Healthcare Operations Management
Session Chair: Shrutivandana Sharma, Singapore University of Technology and Design
 

Reducing Non-urgent Visits and Emergency Department Congestion: Perception Improvement and Pricing
Shrutivandana Sharma*, Ying Xu, Manu Kumar Gupta, Costas Courcoubetis

 

Real-Time Patient Transfer under Ambulance Offload Delay
Wenqian Xing*, Cheng Hua

 

Vaccine Appointment Scheduling: The Second Dose Challenge
Sarah Yini Gao*, Chaitanya Bandi, Rajeeva Moorthy, Chung-Piaw Teo, Kim-Chuan Toh

 

Share or Hide Emergency Department Queue-lengths to Reduce Congestion?
Shrutivandana Sharma*, Yufeng Zhang, Costas Courcoubetis

Section 1D

Information Design and Incentive Management
Session Chair: Feng Tian, The University of Hong Kong
 

Dynamic Moral Hazard with Adverse Selection - A Pontryagin Approach
Feng Tian*, Feifan Zhang, Peng Sun, Izak Duenyas

 

Impact of Self-Service Technology in Designing a Service Delivery System
Jie Wang*, Lijun Ma, Weili Xue, Yong-Hong Kuo

 

Optimal Stockist Selection and Contract Design: Evidence from Supply Chain in Indian
Yu Long*, Wei Jiang, Jussi Keppo, Omkar Palsule-Desai

 

The Economics of Bestsellers: Consumer Search, Sales Ranking, and Social Learning
Wentao Lu*, Man Yu

Section 1E

Best Student Paper Competition (I)
Session Chair: Zhipeng Liang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
 

Generalized Linear Bandits with Local Differential Privacy
Zhipeng Liang*, Jiheng Zhang, Yang Wang

 

Managing Retail Inventory and Pricing in the Presence of Stochastic Purchase Returns
Alys Jiaxin Liang*, Stefanus Jasin, Joline Uichanco

 

Emergency Care Access vs. Quality: Uncovering Hidden Consequences of Fast-Track Routing Decisions
Shuai Hao*, Zhankun Sun, Yuqian Xu

Section 1FCareer Fair
16:45 - 17:00Announcement of Best Student Paper Awards

End of first day

* Paper presenter is listed as the first author.

TimeProgram
09:00 – 10:30Concurrent Session 3
Section 3A

Revenue Management and Pricing
Session Chair: Zhuoluo Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong


Dynamic Pricing under Trade-in Programs
Zhuoluo Zhang*, Murray Lei, Sean Xiang Zhou

 

Prices vs. Quantities Revisited: Optimal Regulation under Market Uncertainty
Guokai Li*, Pin Gao, Zizhuo Wang

 

Approximation Algorithm for Bundling
Mina M Iravani*, Guillermo Gallego, Masoud Talebian

 

Data-driven Robust Dual-Sourcing Inventory Management Under Purchase Price and Demand Uncertainties
Xing Xiong*, Yanzhi Li, Wenguo Yang, Huaxiao Shen

 

Cyclic Pricing with Waiting Customers and Population Dynamics
Xiaoxiao Li*, Yimin Yu, Zheyi Li

Section 3B

Smart City Operations (II)
Session Chair: Yihang Yang, City University of Hong Kong
 

Fleet Repositioning for Vehicle Sharing Systems: The Optimality of Balanced Myopic Policy
Yihang Yang*, Yimin Yu, Qian Wang, Junming Liu

 

A Stable Matching Approach for Crowdsourcing Last-mile Delivery
Nian Zhang*, Zhixue Liu, Feng Li, Zhou Xu

 

Drone-assisted On-time Delivery in Urban Areas
Wenqian Liu*, Lindong Liu, Xiangtong Qi

 

Synchronizing Ramp Operations Vehicles of Airport Baggage Handling Services
Yong Chen*, Gang Chen

Section 3C

Interface Between OM and Marketing/IS

Session Chair: Junxue Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
 

Bundling Ancillary Services: Going Vertical or Horizontal?
Junxue Zhang*, Chenguang Wu, Ying-Ju Chen

 

Simultaneous or Sequential? Retail Strategies of a New Product and an Extended Warranty
Xiaolin Wang*

 

Should a Sharing Platform Adopt the Bilateral Review System?
Xuanqi Chen*, Gang Li, Shengli Li, Quan Zheng

 

Gaining Virtual or Real Value? Exploring the Impact of Virtual Reality Marketing Initiatives on Firm Value
Yangchun Xiong*, Hugo K.S. Lam, Sahar Karimi

Section 3D

Responsible Operations Management
Session Chair: Jiahui Zhou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
 

Combating Collusion in Responsible Sourcing
Jiahui Zhou*, Shiqing Yao

 

Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chain: Green or Greenwashing
Yilin Shi*

 

Quality Certificate in Responsible Sourcing under Collusion Risk
Ruoxin Gao*, Shiqing Yao, Ruina Yang

 

Strategic Communications with Socializing Agents under Unknown Public Health Threats
Ailing Xu*, Qiaochu He, Ying Ju Chen

Section 3E

Service Operations Management
Session Chair: Linggang Qi, City University of Hong Kong
 

Discrete Choice and Competition in Service Markets with Price- and Delay-Sensitive Customers
Linggang Qi*, Pang Zhan

 

Optimal Routing to Parallel Servers in Heavy Traffic
Heng-Qing Ye*

 

Optimizing Queues When Customers Commit the Sunk Cost Fallacy
Liutao Yang*, Shining Wu

10:30 - 11:00Break
11:00 - 12:30Concurrent Session 4
Section 4A

Supply Chain Management (II)
Session Chair: Jie Peng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
 

Financial Reporting Comparability and Foreign Supply Chain Relations
Jie Peng*, Jing Wu, Xiangang Xin

 

Anticipatory Packing
Tongwen Wu*, Yanzhi Li

 

Drop-shipping Supply Chains with Return Option
Jingwei Su*

 

Behavior-Based Pricing under Social Effect
Yuanbing Miao*, Guang Xiao, Xiaomeng Guo

Section 4B

Empirical Research in Operations Management (II)
Session Chair: Yu Xia, The University of Hong Kong


Vertical Integration and Resource Allocation: An Empirical Study in Chinese Movie Industry
Yu Xia*, Hailiang Chen

 

Protagonists in Digital Transformation: The Impact of Chief Digital Officers on Firm Performance
Minghao Zhu*, Hugo K.S. Lam, Feng Liu, Andy C.L. Yeung, T.C.E. Cheng

 

Quantifying Disruptive Innovation: From Management to Science
Jiang Li*, Chunli Wei, Dongbo Shi

 

The Bullwhip Effect in the Servitized Manufacturing Firms
Yimeng Niu*, Jing Wu, Zhibin Jiang

Section 4C

Supply Chain Management (III)
Session Chair: Shuhan Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
 

Does Safety Violation Propagate through Supply Chain?
Shuhan Wang*, Di Fan, Chris K.Y. Lo, Frank Wiengarten

 

Impacts of Recurrent SDMs on Global Supply Chain Configuration for New Products: A Study on Electric Vehicles during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yiji Cai*, Shuyi Wang, George Q. Huang

 

Cross-channel Cooperation of Ecological Chain Products in an Entrepreneurship and Innovation Platform
Zerong Lyu*, Zhaofu Hong

 

An Integrated Location-Inventory Model for a Slow-Moving Product with Customer Waiting Time Consideration
Jie Chu*, Fe Fan, Kai Huang

Section 4D

Interface Between OM and Finance
Session Chair: Zepeng Chen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
 

Crowdfunding or Bank Financing: Innovation with the Threat of Downstream Imitation and Market Uncertainty
Zepeng Chen*, Xiaomeng Guo, Guang Xiao, Fasheng Xu

 

The Financial Impact of Manufacturing Repurposing during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Hugo Lam*

 

Capacity Co-opetition of Make-to-order Firms
Hua Xiao*, Min Gong, Zhaotong Lian

Section 4E

Online Marketplace & Platform Operations
Session Chair: Venus Hiu Ling Lo, City University of Hong Kong
 

Omnichannel Assortment Optimization with Two-Stage Decisions
Venus Hiu Ling Lo*

 

Competition between Online and Offline Channels with Negative Social Interactions
Xue Zhao*, Xiaomeng Guo, Guang Xiao

 

Optimal Pricing and Return Policy and the Value of Freight Insurance for a Retailer Facing Heterogeneous Consumers with Uncertain Product Values
Jiaxin Lin*, Juliang Zhang, T.C.E. Cheng

 

To Keep Price Consistency or Not: Multi-Channel Retailing with Consumers’ Fairness Concern
Yumeng Li*, Xiaomeng Guo, Guang Xiao, Wenxin Xu

End of second day

* Paper presenter is listed as the first author.