27/11/2020 @ 13:40 – 15:30 – Can Shared Service Delivery Increase Customer Engagement? A Study of Shared Medical Appointments  Nazlı Sönmez, London Business School November 27, Friday 13:40 via Zoom Customers and providers alike often consider one-on-one service delivery to be ideal, assuming – perhaps unquestioningly – that devoting individualized attention maximizes customer engagement and improves outcomes. Alternatively, shared service delivery, […]

20/11/2020 @ 13:40 – 15:30 – Balancing Assortment Breadth vs. Depth when Stores have Limited Capacity Sumit Kunnumkal Indian School of Business November 20, Friday 13:40 via Zoom Integrating inventory and assortment planning decisions is a challenging task that requires comparing the value of demand expansion through broader choice for consumers, with the value of higher product availability. We develop a […]

06/11/2020 @ 13:30 – 15:15 – The Dao of Robustness Achieving Robustness in Prescriptive Analytics  Dr. Melvyn Sim National University of Singapore November 6, Friday 13:40 via Zoom We present a model for optimization under uncertainty called robustness optimization that favors solutions for which the model’s constraint would be the most robust or least fragile under uncertainty. The decision maker does […]

16/10/2020 @ 13:30 – 15:30 – Informing (or not) the Public about a Pandemic   joint work with Francis de Véricourt (ESMT Berlin) and Shouqiang Wang (University of Texas at Dallas) Assistant Professor Huseyin Gurkan ESMT Berlin , Management Science   Oct  16, 1:40 p.m. Zoom information will be sent later. Participants from outside the IE department can register from the link below. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bilkent-university-industrial-engineering-seminar-huseyin-gurkan-tickets-124681609049 […]

09/10/2020 @ 10:30 – 12:30 – Sequential Innovation in Mobile App Development Prof. Bilal Gokpinar, UCL School of Management (joint work with Nilam Kaushik, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore) Oct. 9, Friday, 1:40 p.m. Zoom details will be sent later Participants from outside the IE department can register from the link below. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bilkent-university-industrial-engineering-seminar-bilal-gokpinar-tickets-123662942189 Consumers spent $120 billion on mobile apps globally […]

09/03/2020 @ 10:40 – 12:25 – DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING IE 496 SEMINAR 9 MART 2020, 13:40-15:30 Mithat Çoruh Amfi HIZLI TÜKETİM VE PERAKENDE SEKTÖRÜ   ORHAN DAĞLIOĞLUGİL, A101 – OPERASYON KOMİTESİ ÜYESİ VE CTO 2010 yılından bu yana A101’de Operasyon Komitesi Üyesi ve CTO olarak görev yapmaktadır. A101’e katılmadan önce, Turgut Aydın Holding Grup Şirketlerinden Memorial Sağlık Grubu, English Home […]

06/03/2020 @ 10:30 – 12:00 – Bargaining, Reference Points, and Limited Influence  Assoc. Prof. Emin Karagözoğlu, Department of Economics, Bilkent University March 6, Friday, 1:40 p.m. EA-409 We study the emergence of reference points in a bilateral, infinite horizon, alternating offers bargaining game. Players’ preferences exhibit reference-dependence, and their current offers have the potential to influence each other’s future reference points. […]

21/02/2020 @ 10:30 – 12:00 – SOME BASIC CONCEPTS ABOUT PRODUCT SAFETY Dr. Müjdat Tohumcu, Mechanical Engineering, Bilkent University Feb 21, Friday, 1:40 p.m. EA-409 In this presentation the importance of product safety will be discussed. As a basis for discussion, a fictitious scenario will be generated. However this fictitous scenario  is actually structured on  case from real life. In otherwords […]

31/01/2020 @ 10:30 – 12:15 –  Man and Machine: The Impact of Machine Input on Human Decision Making Under Limited Attention Prof. Tamer Boyacı, Michael Diekmann Chair in Management Science, Dean of Faculty, ESMT Berlin January 31, Friday, 1:40 p.m. EA-409  The interaction between machine-based intelligence and human decision making has ever been a topic of interest and debate, but arguably […]

20/12/2019 @ 10:45 – 12:30 – Distributionally Robust Auction Design Çağıl Koçyiğit Risk Analytics and Optimization at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Dec  20, 1:40 p.m. EA-409 Auctions are routinely used in economic transactions that are characterized by demand uncertainty, ranging from the sale of financial instruments (e.g., U.S. Treasury bills), antiques, collectibles and commodities (e.g., radio spectra, electricity and […]