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We consider a robust version of the revenue maximization problem, where a single seller wishes to sell $n$ items to a single unit-demand buyer. In this robust version, the seller knows the buyer's marginal value distribution for each item…

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A monopolist seller of multiple goods screens a buyer whose type is initially unknown to both but drawn from a commonly known distribution. The buyer privately learns about his type via a signal. We derive the seller's optimal mechanism in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-05-27 Rahul Deb , Anne-Katrin Roesler

We study a type of reverse (procurement) auction problems in the presence of budget constraints. The general algorithmic problem is to purchase a set of resources, which come at a cost, so as not to exceed a given budget and at the same…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Evangelos Markakis

We study the mechanism design problem of selling a public good to a group of agents by a principal in the correlated private value environment. We assume the principal only knows the expectations of the agents' values, but does not know the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-01-06 Wanchang Zhang

We study a mechanism design problem where a seller aims to allocate a good to multiple bidders, each with a private value. The seller supports or favors a specific group, referred to as the minority group. Specifically, the seller requires…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-02-13 Ruiqin Wang , Cagil Kocyigit , Napat Rujeerapaiboon

In this paper, we investigate the capacitated assortment optimization problem with pricing under the paired combinatorial logit model, whose goal is to identify the revenue-maximizing subset of products as well as their selling prices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Daihan Zhang , Zhenghe Zhong , Chuning Gao , Rui Chen

This paper presents a novel distributed robust optimization scheme for steering distributions of multi-agent systems under stochastic and deterministic uncertainty. Robust optimization is a subfield of optimization which aims to discover an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Arshiya Taj Abdul , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We consider a distribution logistics scenario where a shipping operator, managing a limited amount of resources, receives a stream of collection requests, issued by a set of customers along a booking time-horizon, that are referred to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Giovanni Giallombardo , Francesca Guerriero , Giovanna Miglionico

We study the cyclic inventory routing problem that involves joint decisions on vehicle routing and inventory replenishment on an infinite, cyclic horizon. It considers a single warehouse and a set of geographically dispersed retailers. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Menglei Jia , Albert H. Schrotenboer , Ahmadreza Marandi , Feng Chen

We consider a monopolist seller facing a single buyer with additive valuations over n heterogeneous, independent items. It is known that in this important setting optimal mechanisms may require randomization [HR12], use menus of infinite…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Aviad Rubinstein

I consider a mechanism design problem of selling multiple goods to multiple bidders when the designer has minimal amount of information. I assume that the designer only knows the upper bounds of bidders' values for each good and has no…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-02 Wanchang Zhang

We consider the problem of a revenue-maximizing seller with a large number of items $m$ for sale to $n$ strategic bidders, whose valuations are drawn independently from high-dimensional, unknown prior distributions. It is well-known that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Christos Boutsikas , Petros Drineas , Marios Mertzanidis , Alexandros Psomas , Paritosh Verma

We study the problem of designing revenue-maximizing auctions for allocating multiple goods to flexible consumers. In our model, each consumer is interested in a subset of goods known as its flexibility set and wants to consume one good…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Shiva Navabi , Ashutosh Nayyar

We study revenue maximization by deterministic mechanisms for the simplest case for which Myerson's characterization does not hold: a single seller selling two items, with independently distributed values, to a single additive buyer. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Moshe Babaioff , Noam Nisan , Aviad Rubinstein

We study multi-product monopoly pricing where the seller jointly designs the selling mechanism and the information structure for the buyer to learn his values. Unlike the case with exogenous information, we show that when the seller…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yang Cai , Yingkai Li , Jinzhao Wu

When selling many goods with independent valuations, we develop a distributionally robust framework, consisting of a two-player game between seller and nature. The seller has only limited knowledge about the value distribution. The seller…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Tim S. G. van Eck , Pieter Kleer , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

We study deterministic monopoly pricing under partial knowledge of the market, where the seller has access only to summary statistics of the valuation distribution, such as the mean, dispersion, and maximum value. Using tools from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Tim S. G. van Eck , Pieter Kleer , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

We study revenue optimization in a repeated auction between a single seller and a single buyer. Traditionally, the design of repeated auctions requires strong modeling assumptions about the bidder behavior, such as it being myopic, infinite…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Shipra Agrawal , Constantinos Daskalakis , Vahab Mirrokni , Balasubramanian Sivan

Robust optimization is a popular paradigm for modeling and solving two- and multi-stage decision-making problems affected by uncertainty. In many real-world applications, the time of information discovery is decision-dependent and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Phebe Vayanos , Angelos Georghiou , Han Yu

Robust discrete optimization is a highly active field of research where a plenitude of combinations between decision criteria, uncertainty sets and underlying nominal problems are considered. Usually, a robust problem becomes harder to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Marc Goerigk , Mohammad Khosravi