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In this paper, we study a facility location problem within a competitive market context, where customer demand is predicted by a random utility choice model. Unlike prior research, which primarily focuses on simple constraints such as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hoang Giang Pham , Tien Thanh Dam , Ngan Ha Duong , Tien Mai , Minh Hoang Ha

We study a variant of the competitive facility location problem, in which a company is to locate new facilities in a market where competitor's facilities already exist. We consider the scenario where only a limited number of possible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Yun Hui Lin , Qingyun Tian

We consider a dynamic assortment selection problem where a seller has a fixed inventory of $N$ substitutable products and faces an unknown demand that arrives sequentially over $T$ periods. In each period, the seller needs to decide on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Abdellah Aznag , Vineet Goyal , Noemie Perivier

Assortment optimization concerns the problem of selling items with fixed prices to a buyer who will purchase at most one. Typically, retailers select a subset of items, corresponding to an "assortment" of brands to carry, and make each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Will Ma

Consider a storage area where arriving items are stored temporarily in bounded capacity stacks until their departure. We look into the problem of deciding where to put an arriving item with the objective of minimizing the maximum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Martin Olsen , Allan Gross

In this work we investigate the problem of order batching and picker routing in storage areas. These are labour and capital intensive problems, often responsible for a substantial share of warehouse operating costs. In particular, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Cristiano Arbex Valle , John E Beasley , Alexandre Salles da Cunha

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

We consider a strategic decision-making problem where a logistics provider (LP) seeks to locate collection and delivery points (CDPs) with the objective to reduce total logistics costs. The customers maximize utility that depends on their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 David Pinzon Ulloa , Ammar Metnani , Emma Frejinger

This article describes a model and an exact solution method for facility location problems with decision-dependent uncertainties. The model allows characterizing the probability distribution of the random elements as a function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Giovanni Pantuso

We study the fundamental problem of offline assortment optimization under the Multinomial Logit (MNL) model, where sellers must determine the optimal subset of the products to offer based solely on historical customer choice data. While…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Yuxuan Han , Han Zhong , Miao Lu , Jose Blanchet , Zhengyuan Zhou

Multinomial Logistic Bandits have recently attracted much attention due to their ability to model problems with multiple outcomes. In this setting, each decision is associated with many possible outcomes, modeled using a multinomial logit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Sukruta Prakash Midigeshi , Tanmay Goyal , Gaurav Sinha

In collaborative human-robot order picking systems, human pickers and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) travel independently through a warehouse and meet at pick locations where pickers load items onto the AMRs. In this paper, we consider an…

The soft capacitated facility location problem (SCFLP) is a classic combinatorial optimization problem, with its variants widely applied in the fields of operations research and computer science. In the SCFLP, given a set $\mathcal{F}$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hanyin Xiao , Jiaming Zhang , Zhikang Zhang , Weidong Li

In this paper, we consider the contextual variant of the MNL-Bandit problem. More specifically, we consider a dynamic set optimization problem, where a decision-maker offers a subset (assortment) of products to a consumer and observes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Priyank Agrawal , Theja Tulabandhula , Vashist Avadhanula

The recent large scale availability of mobility data, which captures individual mobility patterns, poses novel operational problems that are exciting and challenging. Motivated by this, we introduce and study a variant of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ozan Candogan , Yiding Feng

This paper focuses on the Facility Location Problem with Bernoulli Demand, a discrete facility location problem with uncertainty where the joint distribution of the customers' demands is expressed by means of a set of possible scenarios. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Maria Albareda-Sambola , Elena Fernández , Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama

Decarbonizing long-haul freight requires large-scale deployment of high-power charging infrastructure. This paper studies a multi-period charging station location problem that determines where and when to deploy charging capacity for…

The Capacitated Location Routing Problem is an important planning and routing problem in logistics, which generalizes the capacitated vehicle routing problem and the uncapacitated facility location problem. In this problem, we are given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingyang Zhao , Mingyu Xiao , Shunwang Wang

This paper studies an open question in the warehouse problem where a merchant trading a commodity tries to find an optimal inventory-trading policy to decide on purchase and sale quantities during a fixed time horizon in order to maximize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Ishan Bansal , Oktay Günlük

The rapid expansion of online shopping has increased the demand for timely parcel delivery, compelling logistics service providers to enhance the efficiency, agility, and predictability of their hub networks. In order to solve the problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xinyue Pan , Yujia Xu , Benoit Montreuil