A paper authored by Romain Crastes dit Sourd on a new statistical distribution for avoiding extreme willingness-to-pay estimates derived from discrete choice models has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (ABS 3) The paper introduces a new shifted negative log-normal distribution for the price parameter in mixed multinomial logit models....
Scholars studying servitization argue that manufacturers moving into services need to develop new job roles or modify existing ones, which must be enacted by employees with the right mentality, skill sets, attitudes and capabilities. However, there is a paucity of empirical research on how such changes affect employee-level outcomes. The authors theorize that job enrichment...
Gulbanu Kaptan (Co-I) has been awarded a Research England Policy Support Funding, in collaboration with Alessandro Biraglia (PI) and Luca Sabini (Co-I) to identify and classify the UK legislations that prevent (or bolster) food upcycling practices at national and local levels, develop a roadmap recommending policy amendments, and connect policymakers and businesses in the Leeds...
Joshua Weller's work was highlighted in a piece on teaching children about risk on the BBC Future website: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221101-how-to-teach-kids-to-make-great-choices He talks about how decision making competetence predicts many life outcome, with teens who score low on this measure having higher drug use and more delinquent behavior. The measure can predict serious outcomes for adults...
The Business Analytics and Decision Sciences postgraduate students (Gaurav Kumar, Mary Avelin, Ali A Khan, Didar Cherniyazova and Ahmad Ammash) from the University of Leeds - Business School competed and won first place in the ASDA hackathon which focused on various aspects of supply chain. They were faced with a problem statement of identifying additional...
A number of students from our MSc Business Analytics & Decision Sciences programme presented their research in a mini-conference led by Sarah Jenkins and Helen Roberts in collaboration with the Met Office. The students were supervised by colleagues in the Met office (Rosie Oakes, Helen Roberts and Martin Veasey) along with our CDR members (Aritad...
David gave a seminar entitled “A discrete-continuous approach for simultaneous modelling of time-use and expenditure" Abstract: Interest in time-use modelling has increased significantly during the last few years, especially as activity-based modelling becomes the dominating approach for large-scale transport modelling. The objective of time-use modelling is to understand and predict people’s engagement in activities throughout...
In the QS Business Master’s Ranking: Business Analytics, the MSc Business Analytics and Decision Sciences programme at Leeds has been ranked 9th in the UK ( 71st-80th globally). The programme was also placed 6th in the UK for ‘thought leadership’, 8th for ‘diversity’ and 10th for ‘alumni outcomes’.
Sajid's talk "Decision Making by Humans & Machines: Challenges and Perspectives" covered a number of his research projects and involved an interactive discussion with industrial partners and faculty at NUST to explore potential areas for collaboration.
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (https://www.kaist.ac.kr/en/) was founded in 1971 and is one of Korea's most prestigious universities. Dr Jooyoung Jeon from the Predictive Analytics Lab (https://sites.google.com/view/jyjeon/) in the Graduate School of Future Strategy in KAIST, visited the Centre for Decision Research (CDR) for the ESRC project ‘Climate change, social inequality...
