Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions
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Can highway development promote employment growth in India?
(Elsevier, 2018-05)India has embarked on an ambitious highway development program to significantly improve interstate road transport connectivity. Between 2000 and 2015, total length of India's national highway network has nearly doubled and ... -
Efficiently mining high utility itemsets with negative unit profits
(Elsevier, 2018-04)A High Utility Itemset (HUI) mining is an important problem in the data mining literature that considers utilities of items (such as profits and margins) to discover interesting patterns from transactional databases. Several ... -
Opinion mining in management research: the state of the art and the way forward
(Springer, 2018-01-15)In the past decade, the explosive growth of social media has led to the emergence of a wide variety of information sources that can significantly impact individual level decision making processes. This ... -
Efficient mining of high utility itemsets with multiple minimum utility thresholds
(Elsevier, 2018-01)Mining high utility itemsets is considered to be one of the important and challenging problems in the data mining literature. The problem offers greater flexibility to a decision maker in using item utilities such as ... -
Telemedicine for low resource settings: exploring the generative mechanisms
(Elsevier, 2018-02)Information Communication and Technology for Health (ICT4H) initiatives, such as telemedicine, can potentially bridge the gap between the health care services available in rural and urban areas. However most of such ... -
An integrated decision support system for strategic supply chain optimisation in process industries: the case of a zinc company
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-24)We introduce a menu-driven user-friendly decision support system (DSS) for supply chain planning based on optimisation. The DSS is based on a multi-source (supplier), multi-destination (warehouse) network having multiple ... -
Prevention of and interventions in workplace bullying: a global study of human resource professionals’ reflections on preferred action
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-26)The aim of this study was to analyze Human Resource Professionals’ reflections on the prevention of and intervention in workplace bullying across different countries. More specifically, the study sought to identify what ... -
Learning attitudinal decision model through pair-wise preferences
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)This paper aims to learn a decision-maker’s (DM’s) behavioral process that is characterized in terms of the attitudinal character and the attributes weight vector, both of which are specific to the DM. The authors take the ... -
A Statistical model for helices with applications
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018-09)Motivated by a cutting edge problem related to the shape of α-helices in proteins, we formulate a parametricstatistical model, which incorporates the cylindrical nature of the helix. Our focus is to detect a “kink,” which ... -
Does telecommuting promote sustainable travel and physical activity?
(Elsevier pvt Ltd., 2018-03-24)Researchers have explored the efficacy of telecommuting as a travel demand management strategy in the U.S. Conditions under which telecommuting can reduce VMT (vehicle miles traveled) and ease peak-period traffic congestion ... -
Attitudinal choquet integrals and applications in decision making
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018-02)The compensation capabilities of Choquet integral are augmented to consider the complex attitudinal character of a decision maker. The resulting operator is termed as attitudinal Choquet integral (ACI). The proposed ACI ... -
The 1.5°C target and coal sector transition: at the limits of societal feasibility
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-07)National and global mitigation scenarios consistent with 1.5°C require an early phaseout of coal in major coal-dependent countries, compared to standard technical and economic lifetimes. This appears particularly apparent ... -
Energy appliance transformation in commercial buildings in India under alternate policy scenarios
(Elsevier pvt Ltd., 2017-12)The total electricity consumption from commercial sector was about 9% during 2013–14 in India. Load research survey was carried out to study the usage patterns for all types of electric appliances used in commercial ... -
Proactive vs. reactive order-fulfillment resource allocation for sea-based logistics
(Elsevier pvt Ltd., 2018-06)We study proactive and reactive sea-based order-fulfillment decisions for a set of SKUs. In such systems, a proactive strategy may be more costly than a reactive strategy and variable marginal costs change with respect ... -
Cost-effective architecture of carbon capture and storage (CCS) grid in India
(Elsevier pvt ltd., 2017-11)Various modeling studies analyzing global 2 °C climate stabilization scenarios have projected penetration of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) technologies in India alongside a sizable penetration of renewable energy ... -
Let the people speak: improving regional adaptation policy by combining adaptive capacity assessments with Vulnerability perceptions of farmers in Gujarat, India
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-13)Farmers throughout the Global South are vulnerable to extreme heat events and shifting precipitation patterns associated with climate change. This is particularly the case in Gujarat, India, which is experiencing fluctuating ... -
The tree structure - a general framework for food waste quantification in food services
(Elsevier pvt ltd., 2018-03)Food waste in the food services industry has been identified as an important unsustainability hotspot, but standardised methods for food waste quantification are lacking. Existing studies on waste quantity assessments have ... -
Environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified soy feed in Sweden
(Elsevier pvt ltd., 2018-03-01)Most environmental assessments of soy production and trade do not distinguish between genetically modified (GM) and non-GM soy. In reality though, soybean imports to European Union maintain identity preservation through ... -
Impact of security expenditures in military alliances on violence from non-state actors: evidence from India
(Elsevier pvt ltd., 2018-04-05)In this paper, we investigate the impact of security expenditures from military alliances involving third-party intervention on violent incidents from non-state actors. Our main learning is a rather surprising factthat at ... -
Which interpretational route will the Supreme court of India follow when faced with the contentious civil liability for nuclear damage act, 2010?
(Oxford University Press, 2018-04-10)The Civil Nuclear Liability for Damages Act of India enacted in 2010 has been a matter of concern to international suppliers and vendors. This is due to the perceived deviation of the law from the principle of legal ...