Integration of Blockchain Technology

into Supply Network for Resilient and

Efficient Acquisition

Farinaz Sabz Ali Pour

Dr. Adrian Gheorghe

Graduate Student Sprint

February 2021
Research Question Network Communication and
Information Flow:
(1) Analog gaps between customer
and supplier, (2) Lack of information
sharing among all involved
1. What challenges of supply chain system can be addressed by stakeholders, (3) Lack of an
applying blockchain technology? integrated a global view concerning
increasingly dynamic supply chains
2. What kind of blockchain-based supply chain management
framework can be developed to enhance supply chain Data and Information
management? Management:
(1) Disparate record keeping, (2)
Lack of accurate and reliable data for
analytics, (3) Excessive redundancy
and crosschecking (4) Long and
costly audit processes
Transparency:
(1) Lack of traceability of failures in
the flow of the process, (2) Limited
visibility concerning how and where
products are sourced, made, and
stored
Performance measurement:
(1) high cost of managing the
network, (2) decreased speed due to
network arrangement and
communication (3) lack of flexibility
due to various policies and structure
in the network
Leveraging big data analytics
to assist disaster relief
activities

Wael Khallouli
Advisor: Jingwei Huang

Graduate Student Sprint

February 2021
Research Problem
- Language barriers
- Availability

Approaches –
• Supervised learning
• Logic-based
classification

• Who needs rescue?

• Where are the victims located?
• What do they need ?

• Fine-grained information How to transfer knowledge

Challenges • Location detection between the different event
• Trustworthiness types?
Socio-Technical Readiness Assessment
of Healthcare Service Robots
Sujatha Alla

Dr. Pilar Pazos

Graduate Student Sprint

February 2021
The aim of this research is to develop a two-dimensional readiness assessment framework that can combine
technology maturity and human readiness for service robot adaption in healthcare.

 The following research goals will be carried out. 

1. To redefine TRLs of service robots in the healthcare context.
2. To develop a TRL tool specific to healthcare robots.
3. To assess TRL of the select healthcare robots and to stipulate
corresponding HRLs of healthcare workers (Theoretically).
4. To develop a methodological conceptual framework by integrating
redefined TRL and HRL frameworks.
Predictors of Cybersecure
Behaviors
Miguel Angel Toro-Jarrin

Pilar Pazos-Lago

Graduate Student Sprint

February 2021
 What are the predictors of secure-email use related
behaviors in organization in the USA?
Skill level Attitudes

Intentional Dangerous Aware

High destruction tinkering assurance
Subjective Cybersecure
Intentions
Intention
norms Behavior
Detrimental Naïve Basic
Low
misuse mistakes hygiene

Malicious Middle Beneficial Intentionality Anticipated

regret

Preliminary Confirmatory Main study

Prepare the Address the research

instrumentation question
Information sharing structure and
intrateam conflict on teams’ TMS
formation and functioning
Francisco Cima

Dr. Pilar Pazos

Graduate Student Sprint

February 2021
Research Question

 How does information sharing structure affect TMS

formation and functioning? Does intrateam conflict
influence this association? If yes, how?
Benefits of transactive memory in teams
• Engagement in search and acquisition of information
• Tacit coordination
• Effective use of information

Main directions

Technology for information Network

processing perspective of
processes and
Intrateam conflict states emergent states
Feature Selection Using Game Theory

Gayane Grigoryan

Dr. Andrew J. Collins

Graduate Student Sprint

February 2021
 Feature Selection Using Game Theory

Features
(, …, )
System Model Outcome

Selection of Increased
Model:
relevant computational
features efficiency

Increased
Interpretable
model
results
performance
Cooperative game theory: Shapley value
Manages the
problem of
overfitting

Model: f( )
Example
Features
Designing Age
car seat Weight Feature
position Height in shoes selection using
…. game theory