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The growing need for companies to reduce costs and maximize profits has led to an increased focus on logistics activities. Among these, inventory management plays a crucial role in minimizing organizational expenses by optimizing the…

The Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP) is a fundamental optimization problem in supply-chain management, concerned with optimizing the flow of goods from a supplier to retailers. Over time, in response to demands at the retailers, the…

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We study the assortment optimization problem under the Sequential Multinomial Logit (SML), a discrete choice model that generalizes the multinomial logit (MNL). Under the SML model, products are partitioned into two levels, to capture…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Alvaro Flores , Gerardo Berbeglia , Pascal van Hentenryck

Product assortment selection is a critical challenge facing physical retailers. Effectively aligning inventory with the preferences of shoppers can increase sales and decrease out-of-stocks. However, in real-world settings the problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Porter Jenkins , Michael Selander , J. Stockton Jenkins , Andrew Merrill , Kyle Armstrong

In this paper, we study the dynamic assortment optimization problem under a finite selling season of length $T$. At each time period, the seller offers an arriving customer an assortment of substitutable products under a cardinality…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-01-21 Xi Chen , Yining Wang , Yuan Zhou

In the unsplittable flow problem on a path, we are given a capacitated path $P$ and $n$ tasks, each task having a demand, a profit, and start and end vertices. The goal is to compute a maximum profit set of tasks, such that for each edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Bonsma , Jens Schulz , Andreas Wiese

The growing amount of applications that generate vast amount of data in short time scales render the problem of partial monitoring, coupled with prediction, a rather fundamental one. We study the aforementioned canonical problem under the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Michalis Kallitsis , Stilian Stoev , George Michailidis

The problem of biclustering consists of the simultaneous clustering of rows and columns of a matrix such that each of the submatrices induced by a pair of row and column clusters is as uniform as possible. In this paper we approximate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-08-22 Kai Puolamäki , Sami Hanhijärvi , Gemma C. Garriga

Production planning must account for uncertainty in a production system, arising from fluctuating demand forecasts. Therefore, this article focuses on the integration of updated customer demand into the rolling horizon planning cycle. We…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-09-27 Manuel Schlenkrich , Wolfgang Seiringer , Klaus Altendorfer , Sophie N. Parragh

We study huge-scale assortment optimization problems to maximize expected revenue under customer choice, addressing a fundamental challenge in industries such as transportation, retail, and healthcare. The choice-based linear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Donghao Zhu , Hanzhang Qin , Ching-pei Lee , Yuki Saito , Takahiro Kawashima , Kenji Fukumizu

We study the problem of computing maximin share guarantees, a recently introduced fairness notion. Given a set of $n$ agents and a set of goods, the maximin share of a single agent is the best that she can guarantee to herself, if she would…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Georgios Amanatidis , Evangelos Markakis , Afshin Nikzad , Amin Saberi

Given a set of $m$ agents and a set of $n$ items, where agent $A$ has utility $u_{A,i}$ for item $i$, our goal is to allocate items to agents to maximize fairness. Specifically, the utility of an agent is the sum of its utilities for items…

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Majorization-minimization algorithms consist of iteratively minimizing a majorizing surrogate of an objective function. Because of its simplicity and its wide applicability, this principle has been very popular in statistics and in signal…

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We study the basic allocation problem of assigning resources to players so as to maximize fairness. This is one of the few natural problems that enjoys the intriguing status of having a better estimation algorithm than approximation…

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We study the active learning problem of top-$k$ ranking from multi-wise comparisons under the popular multinomial logit model. Our goal is to identify the top-$k$ items with high probability by adaptively querying sets for comparisons and…

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Motivated by applications in the gig economy, we study approximation algorithms for a \emph{sequential pricing problem}. The input is a bipartite graph $G=(I,J,E)$ between individuals $I$ and jobs $J$. The platform has a value of $v_j$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Tristan Pollner , Mohammad Roghani , Amin Saberi , David Wajc

We consider the Stochastic Matching problem, which is motivated by applications in kidney exchange and online dating. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph. Each edge is assigned a known, independent probability of existence and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Marek Adamczyk , Brian Brubach , Fabrizio Grandoni , Karthik A. Sankararaman , Aravind Srinivasan , Pan Xu

We study the tactical time slot management problem under mixed logit demand for attended home delivery in subscription settings. We propose a static mixed-integer linear programming model that integrates delivery slot assortment, price…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Dorsa Abdolhamidi , Virginie Lurkin

The Matching Augmentation Problem (MAP) has recently received significant attention as an important step towards better approximation algorithms for finding cheap $2$-edge connected subgraphs. This has culminated in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Etienne Bamas , Marina Drygala , Ola Svensson

Since its inception in the mid-60s, the inventory staggering problem has been explored and exploited in a wide range of application domains, such as production planning, stock control systems, warehousing, and aerospace/defense logistics.…

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