Workshop on Decision Intelligence and Analytics for Online Marketplaces:

Jobs, Ridesharing, Retail, and Beyond


August 15, 2022 Washington, DC

Full Papers

Monitoring Disintermediation: Actions Matter More Than Words
Yingkang Xie (Northwestern University)*; Jingyi Wang (Huolala); Huaiyu Zhu (Huolala)

Fairness and Anarchy in Ride-Sharing
Ian Kash (University of Illinois at Chicago)*; zhongkai wen (The University of Illinois at Chicago); Lenore Zuck (The University of Illinois at Chicago)

A Simulator-based Decision-Making Approach to Sequential Recommender Systems with Application in Ride-hailing Platform
Xiong-Hui Chen (Nanjing University)*; Yang Yu (Nanjing University); Qingyang Li (Didi Research America); Bowei He (City University of Hong Kong); Zhiwei (Tony) Qin (Lyft); Wenjie Shang (AI Labs, Didi Chuxing); Jieping Ye (Didi Chuxing)

Parametric Empirical Bayes for Predicting Quality in Rating Systems
Thomas Ma (Stanford University)*; Ramesh Johari (Stanford University); Nikhil Garg (Cornell Tech); Michael S Bernstein (Stanford University)

From Pairwise Ranking to Click Prediction on ZipRecruiter Jobs
Ritvik Kharkar (ZipRecruiter)*

Leveraging Taxonomies for Solving Named Entity Recognition in Job Search Queries
Ishan Shrivastava (ZipRecruiter)*; Hengda Shi (ZipRecruiter)

The Unified Experience of Search Ads and Display Ads at Indeed.com
Riley Ji (Indeed); Ziying Liu (Indeed); Shichuan Ma (Indeed); Yu Sun (Indeed); Xingang Huang (Indeed); Lihong Pei (Indeed); Shu Zhang (Indeed); Haiyan Luo (Indeed)*

Alternative Job Discovery with Attentive Neural Re-ranking
Liang Wu (LinkedIn)*; Liangjie Hong (LinkedIn)

An Industry Based Evaluation of Recommender System Performance
Mohamed H Latif (University College of London)*

GCF: Generalized Causal Forest for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation in Online Marketplace
Shu Wan (Didi Chuxing)*; Chen Zheng (Didi Chuxing, Beijing, China); Zhonggen SUN (Didi Chuxing); Mengfan Xu (Northwestern University); Xiaoqing Yang (Didi Chuxing, Beijing, China); Hongtu Zhu (UNC Chapel Hill); Jiecheng Guo (Didi Chuxing)

Extended Abstracts (Posters)

Identify spatiotemporal demand patterns of an online ridesourcing system via Wasserstein analysis
Dechao Lei (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law)*

Incentive mechanism for corporate telecommuting in the post-epidemic period based on principal-agent theory
Jing Bai (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics)*

Ride-Hailing Order Dispatching via A Decentralized Network based Mean-Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Wei Gu (University of Southern California)*; Maged Dessouky (University of Southern California)


A Causal Approach for Business Optimization: Application on an Online Marketplace
Naama Parush (Vianai Systems)*; Ohad Levinkron-Fisch (Vianai); Hanan Shteingart (Vianai Systems); Amir Bar Sela (Worthy); Amir Zilberman (Worthy); Jake Klein (Vianai Systems)


Last mile delivery routing optimizer based on GPU-parallelized adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm
Minhao Liu (Walmart Labs)*; Mingang Fu (Walmart Labs ); Jing Huang (Walmart Labs ); MInghui Liu (Walmart Labs )