ESSAYS ON SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN, GROUP DECISION MAKING AND EXPERT-AUGMENTED FEATURE SELECTION
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2022-10-04
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University of Oregon
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My dissertation consists of an essay in sustainable supply chain management, an essay in group decision making, and an essay in expert-augmented feature selection. My first essay is an unpublished work co-authored with Prof. Nagesh Murthy and Dr. Hossein Rikhtehgar Berenji. In some supply chains, it is extraordinarily expensive for a buyer to audit all selected suppliers to guarantee compliance with the buyer's code of conduct for social and environmental responsibility. In this work, we provide insight to help such a buyer profit from judicious audits, despite the risk of revenue loss due to non-compliance. My second essay is co-authored with Babak Aslani and Dr. Jafar Rezaei; it has been published. The purpose of this article is to investigate the detection and handling of biased decision-makers in group decision-making processes. To address this issue, we developed three algorithms including extreme, moderate, and soft versions.
The third essay is an unpublished work co-authored with Mohsen Mirhashemi, Prof. Michael Pangburn, Prof. Dursun Delen, and Dr. Saeed Piri. In this study, we enrich the conventional feature-selection method by incorporating the opinions of experts on the features, a technique we refer to as expert-augmented feature selection. To reflect the trade-off between explainability and prediction accuracy, we develop two very similar models: one for classification problems, and one for regression problems. Finally, we develop a posterior ensemble approach for quantifying each feature's accuracy-contribution degree. This algorithm's output helps us to discover features that are consistently rated, under-rated, or over-rated by experts.
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Bias, Expert-augmented, Group Decision Making, Supervised Feature Selection, Sustainability