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Data science for decision making in developing economies: A travesty of business investments
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Based on a recent survey of Analytics Adoption in Indian business organization, the author makes a claim that for most organizations grappling with the problem of incomplete and unorganized data, the tools of data science ...
Emergency medical service system design under service level constraints for heterogeneous patients
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
We study the problem of locating Emergency Medical Service (EMS) facilities in the presence of service level constraints for patients with acuity levels ranging from resuscitation to non-urgent. Each patient arriving at ...
Issues in water rights, institutional design and pricing that need resolution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
In this paper the core issues that need resolution before water development especially by the private sector, and efficient usage can happen are very briefly outlined. These are Water rights have to be defined more ...
Heuristics for the multi-product satiating newsboy problem
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Due to the preference of satiation (of the profit target) over maximization (of expected profit) in uncertain situations, the newsboy problem with the satiation objective is an important practical problem. In the multi-product ...
Breadth-first and best-first exact procedures for regular measures of the multi-mode RCPSP
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is a NP-hard problem representing a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. Depth-first tree search approach by Sprecher & Drexl (1998) is the ...
Ethics statements on websites of Indian companies
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
This paper examines the corporate code of ethics of Indian companies as displayed on their websites. With the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) having made it mandatory for listed companies to frame a code of ...
Determinants of the sources of FDI into India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Inward FDI flows over 2000-01 from many source countries into India, one of the fastest growing large developing economies in the period, have been explained by an extended gravity model and the an extended allometric ...
An efficient solution approach for combinatorial bandwidth packing problem with queuing delays
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The Combinatorial bandwidth packing problem (CBPP), arising in a telecommunication network with limited bandwidth, is defined as: given a set of request, each with its potential revenue and consisting of calls with their ...
Preparing IAS officer trainees for the role of district magistrate: a competency-based approach
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers occupy a strategic position in Indian public governance system. Government has generally laid a lot of emphasis on the training programmes for IAS officers to ensure that ...
State of marketing analytics in India: prospects and potential challenges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The paper provides an overview of the state of the Marketing Analytics practice in India today, its contribution and its possible challenges for future growth. A diverse set of practitioners from multiple sectors of ...