About the Authors

Ran Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Navid Ghaffarzadegan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

navidg@vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America

Gaofei Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Goshi Aoki

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America

Hazhir Rahmandad

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.