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Agricultural products are often subject to seasonal fluctuations in production and demand. Predicting and managing inventory levels in response to these variations can be challenging, leading to either excess inventory or stockouts.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Amandeep Kaur , Gyan Prakash

In this paper, we investigate a supply chain network with a supplier and multiple retailers. The supplier can either take orders from retailers directly, or choose to build a warehouse somewhere in the network to centralize the ordering…

General Economics · Economics 2025-07-15 Jianing Zhi , Xinghua Li , Zidong Chen

In this study, we analyze and compare the performance of state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning algorithms for solving the supply chain inventory management problem. This complex sequential decision-making problem consists of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Francesco Stranieri , Fabio Stella

We study a competitive online optimization problem with multiple inventories. In the problem, an online decision maker seeks to optimize the allocation of multiple capacity-limited inventories over a slotted horizon, while the allocation…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Qiulin Lin , Yanfang Mo , Junyan Su , Minghua Chen

We study a general model on reusable resource allocation under model uncertainty. A heterogeneous population of customers arrive at the decision maker's (DM's) platform sequentially. Upon observing a customer's type, the DM selects an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Xilin Zhang , Wang Chi Cheung

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for optimal resource allocation with frequency reuse for users with elastic and inelastic traffic in cellular networks. In our model, we represent users' applications running on different user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Ahmed Abdelhadi , T. Charles Clancy

Inventory management in warehouses directly affects profits made by manufacturers. Particularly, large manufacturers produce a very large variety of products that are handled by a significantly large number of retailers. In such a case, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Soh Kumabe , Shinya Shiroshita , Takanori Hayashi , Shirou Maruyama

Today's global supply chains face growing challenges due to rapidly changing market conditions, increased network complexity and inter-dependency, and dynamic uncertainties in supply, demand, and other factors. To combat these challenges,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Zhaoyang Larry Jin , Mehdi Maasoumy , Yimin Liu , Zeshi Zheng , Zizhuo Ren

We consider a fundamental generalization of the classical newsvendor problem where the seller needs to decide on the inventory of a product jointly for multiple locations on a metric as well as a fulfillment policy to satisfy the uncertain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Ayoub Foussoul , Vineet Goyal

We revisit the problem of large-scale assortment optimization under the multinomial logit choice model without any assumptions on the structure of the feasible assortments. Scalable real-time assortment optimization has become essential in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Deeksha Sinha , Theja Tulabandhula

In the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, deciding where to place physical assets, such as commercial beverage coolers, can directly impact revenue growth and execution efficiency. Although churn prediction and demand forecasting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Renato Castro , Rodrigo Paredes , Douglas Kahn

With the rapid growth of global e-commerce, the demand for automation in the logistics industry is increasing. This study focuses on automated picking systems in warehouses, utilizing deep learning and reinforcement learning technologies to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Keqin Li , Jin Wang , Xubo Wu , Xirui Peng , Runmian Chang , Xiaoyu Deng , Yiwen Kang , Yue Yang , Fanghao Ni , Bo Hong

With the rapid growth of the express industry, intelligent warehouses that employ autonomous robots for carrying parcels have been widely used to handle the vast express volume. For such warehouses, the warehouse layout design plays a key…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Haifeng Zhang , Zilong Guo , Han Cai , Chris Wang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Wenxin Li , Jun Wang

We consider the problem of optimally allocating a given total storage budget in a distributed storage system. A source has a data object which it can code and store over a set of storage nodes; it is allowed to store any amount of coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derek Leong , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

Motivated by the application of energy storage management in electricity markets, this paper considers the problem of online linear programming with inventory management constraints. Specifically, a decision maker should satisfy some units…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Lin Yang , Mohammad H. Hajiesmaili , Ramesh Sitaraman , Enrique Mallada , Wing S. Wong , Adam Wierman

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

We consider the following two deterministic inventory optimization problems over a finite planning horizon $T$ with non-stationary demands. (a) Submodular Joint Replenishment Problem: This involves multiple item types and a single retailer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Viswanath Nagarajan , Cong Shi

In modern distributed systems, efficient resource allocation is a vital aspect to maintain scalability, reduce operational costs, and ensure fast execution even across heterogeneous workloads. Predictive models for resource usage are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jonathan Bader , Edgar Blumenthal , Marten Eckardt , Justus Krebs , Joel Witzke , Xemena Wysokinska , Haci Ismail Aslan , Odej Kao

We consider the problem of online allocation (matching and assortments) of reusable resources where customers arrive sequentially in an adversarial fashion and allocated resources are used or rented for a stochastic duration that is drawn…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Vineet Goyal , Garud Iyengar , Rajan Udwani

In the wake of the highly electrified future ahead of us, the role of energy storage is crucial wherever distributed generation is abundant, such as in microgrid settings. Given the variety of storage options that are becoming more and more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 S. Tsianikas , N. Yousefi , J. Zhou , M. Rodgers , D. W. Coit