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    • Behavior Modes, Pathways and Overall Trajectories: Eigenvector and Eigenvalue Analysis of Dynamic Systems 

      Goncalves, Paulo (Camrbidge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-05-09)
      One of the most fundamental principles in system dynamics is the premise that the structure of the system will generate its behavior. Such philosophical position has fostered the development of a number of formal methods ...
    • Provably Near-Optimal LP-Based Policies for Revenue Management in Systems with Reusable Resources 

      Levi, Retsef; Radovanovic, Ana (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Instititue of Technology, 2008-02-07)
      Motivated by emerging applications in workforce management, we consider a class of revenue management problems in systems with reusable resources. The corresponding applications are modeled using the well-known loss network ...
    • Do Short Sellers Front-Run Insider Sales? 

      Khan, Mozaffar; Lu, Hai (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-06-03)
      We find evidence of significant increases in short sales immediately prior to large insider sales, consistent with information leakage and front-running. We examine a number of alternative explanations that the increase ...