Published in Journal of Simulation, 2025
Healthcare Access; Discrete-Event Simulation; Uncertainty Quantification; Psychosocial Services
Recommended citation: Xie, Y, Garcia, G, Song, E, and Serban, N (2025). "Evaluating Access to Pediatric Psychosocial Services: A Discrete Event Simulation Approach Under Uncertainty." Journal of Simulation, September, 1-24.
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Published in BMC Public Health, 2025
Healthcare Access; Psychosocial Services; Pediatric Healthcare; Medicaid
Recommended citation: Xie, Y, Harati, P, Rajbhandari-Thapa, J, and Serban, N (2025). "Evaluating Access to Psychosocial Services for the Medicaid-Insured Children in Georgia." BMC Public Health, 25(1), 244.
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Published in Journal of the American Dental Association (in progress), 2024
Event Sequence Analysis; Dental Healthcare; Emergency Utilization; Healthcare Pathways; Medicaid
Recommended citation: Xie, Y, Caplan, J, and Serban, N. "An Event Sequence Analysis of Pathways Leading to Dental Emergency Utilization." target Journal of the American Dental Association.
Published in INFORMS Operations Research (in progress), 2024
Two-Stage Stochastic Programming; Integer Programming; Operations Management; Solution Methods; Optimization
Recommended citation: Xie, Y, Caplan, J, Noorizadegan, M, and Serban, N. "An Efficient Solution Method for a Class of Two-Stage Stochastic Integer Programs with Applications in Operations Management." target INFORMS Operations Research.
Published in INFORMS Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (in progress), 2024
Network Design; Bilevel Optimization; School-based Healthcare; Health Equity; Operations Management
Recommended citation: Xie, Y, Noorizadegan, M, Dehghanian, A, and Serban, N. "Health Equity: Bilevel Network Design for School-based Healthcare." target INFORMS Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
Published in INFORMS Journal of Computing (in progress), 2024
Parallel Computing; Discrete-Event Simulation; Healthcare Systems; Appointment Scheduling; Calibration
Recommended citation: Xie, Y, Song, E, and Serban, N. "A Parallel Computation Framework for Simulating and Calibrating Large-Scale Psychosocial Appointment Scheduling Systems." target INFORMS Journal of Computing.
Published in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (under review), 2024
Healthcare Access; Psychosocial Services; Pediatric Healthcare; Medicaid; Treatment Engagement
Recommended citation: Zhang, Z, Xie, Y, Ivanov, S, Cuffe, S, and Serban, N. "Comparing Engagement in Clinic-based versus Community-based Mental Health Treatment for Medicaid-Insured Children." in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, under review.
Published in INFORMS Operations Research (under review), 2024
Last Mile Delivery; Parallel Computing; Distributionally Robust Optimization; Uncertainty; Branch-and-Price; Machine Learning
Recommended citation: Xie, Y, Noorizadegan, M, Dehghanian, A, and Serban, N. "A Machine-Learning Accelerated Parallel Branch-and-Price Framework for Stochastic Last-Mile Delivery with Cluster Layout." in INFORMS Operations Research, under review.
Published in BMC Public Health (major revision), 2024
Prevalence; Mental Health Diagnosis; Medicaid; Commercial Insurance
Recommended citation: Liu, W, Xie, Y, Vinson, S, Yu, J, and Serban, N. "Prevalence of Diagnosed Mental Health Conditions among Children with Public and Commercial Insurance." in BMC Public Health, major revision.
[Under Review] Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. Serban, N, Gu, Y, Liu, W, Xie, Y, and Ventura, A.
Emergency Department; Medicaid; Pediatric Psychotherapy Utilization
Published in INFORMS Journal of Computing, 2024
Game Theory; Branch-and-Cut; Benders Decomposition
Recommended citation: Dehghanian, A, Xie, Y, and Serban, N (2024). "Identifying Socially Optimal Equilibria using Combinatorial Properties of Nash Equilibria in Bimatrix Games." INFORMS Journal of Computing. 0(0).
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Published in European Journal of Operational Research, 2022
Dual Decomposition; Large Scale Optimization; Parallel Computing
Recommended citation: Zheng, Y, Xie, Y, Lee, I, Dehghanian, A, and Serban, N. "Parallel subgradient algorithm with block dual decomposition for large-scale optimization." European Journal of Operational Research. 299(1).
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