{"id":16,"date":"2018-07-16T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/mzarandi\/research-publications\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T19:44:10","slug":"papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/mzarandi\/papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-16\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-16-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-16-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-16-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_mit-pf-research widget_mit_pf_research panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>\"Early Detection of Opioid Over-Procurement: A Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Approach\" with D. Bertsimas and P. Petridis, Forthcoming at<em> M&amp;SOM <\/em>(2025).<\/p>\n<p>\"<a class=\"gsc_a_at\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=go7zkYgAAAAJ&amp;sortby=pubdate&amp;citation_for_view=go7zkYgAAAAJ:Se3iqnhoufwC\">Why did US urban homicide spike in 2020? A cross\u2010sectional data analysis for the largest American cities<\/a>\" with\u00a0Arnold Barnett, <em>Risk Analysis<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Risk Analysis Best Paper Award, recognizing the publication with \"the most significant impact on the theory or practice of risk analysis\" among all articles published in 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0167718721000333\">Can Firms Benefit from Competition?<\/a>,\" with I. Horstmann and F. Mathewson, <em>International Journal of Industrial Organization<\/em>, <i>Vol. 76 (2021): 102740.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0377221719300785\">\"Almost Robust Discrete Optimization,\"<\/a>\u00a0with O. Baron, O. Berman, and V. Roshanaei. <i>European Journal of Operational Research,\u00a0Vol. 276, No. 2 (2020): 451-465.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1287\/mnsc.2017.3003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Truthful Cheap Talk: Why Operational Flexibility May Lead to Truthful Communication,\"<\/a>\u00a0with O. Berman and D. Krass. <i>Management Science,<\/i>\u00a0Vol. 65, No. 4 (2019): 1624\u20131641.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1287\/opre.2018.1737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Approximating the First-Come, First-Served Stochastic Matching Model with Ohm's Law,\"<\/a>\u00a0with E.H. Kaplan. <i>Operations\u00a0Research,\u00a0<\/i>Vol. 66, No. 5 (2018): 1423-1432.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0201193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"The Number of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: Estimates Based on Demographic Modeling with Data from 1990-2016,\"<\/a>\u00a0with J.S. Feinstein and E.H. Kaplan. <i>PLOS ONE,<\/i>\u00a013.9 (2018): e0201193.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/0740817X.2012.705452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Solving a Stochastic Facility Location\/Fleet Management Problem with Logic-Based Benders' Decomposition,\"<\/a>\u00a0with O. Berman and J.C. Beck. <i>IIE Transactions,<\/i> Vol. 45, No. 8 (2013): 896-911.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1287\/ijoc.1110.0458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Using Logic-Based Benders Decomposition to Solve the Capacity- and Distance-Constrained Plant Location Problem,\"<\/a> with J.C. Beck. <i>INFORMS Journal on Computing,<\/i> Vol. 24, No. 3 (2012): 387-398.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-642-04244-7_28\">Solving a Location-Allocation Problem with Logic-Based Benders' Decomposition,<\/a>\" with J.C. Beck.\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (2009):<\/em>\u00a0344-351, 2009.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Under Review:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\"Integrating Machine Learning into Immigration Enforcement: Optimizing Decisions through Data\" with D. Bertsimas,<em>\u00a0under review\u00a0<\/em>(2025).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Work in Progress:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\"Beyond Single-Cycle Prediction: Dynamic Modeling of IVF Patient Journeys,\" with S. Dong.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>\"Optimal Scheduling of Circular Container Flows in Drayage Operations,\" with K. Hu and R. Levi.<\/p>\n<p>\"Interpretable Machine Learning for Policy Analysis: The Case of National Immigration Policy, \" with D. Bertsimas.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Early Detection of Opioid Over-Procurement: A Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Approach&#8221; with D. Bertsimas and P. Petridis, Forthcoming at M&amp;SOM (2025). &#8220;Why did US urban homicide spike in 2020? A cross\u2010sectional data analysis for the largest American cities&#8221; with\u00a0Arnold Barnett, Risk Analysis (2024). 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