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Faster and more cost-efficient, crowdsourced delivery is needed to meet the growing customer demands of many industries, including online shopping, on-demand local delivery, and on-demand transportation. The power of crowdsourced delivery…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Fuat Basik , Bugra Gedik , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu , Kun-Lung Wu

The increasing momentum of service-oriented architecture has led to the emergence of divergent delivered services, where service selection is meritedly required to obtain the target service fulfilling the requirements from both users and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Songyuan Li , Jiwei Huang , Bo Cheng , Lizhen Cui , Yuliang Shi

The rapid growth of the ride-hailing industry has revolutionized urban transportation worldwide. Despite its benefits, equity concerns arise as underserved communities face limited accessibility to affordable ride-hailing services. A key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Xiaotong Guo , Hanyong Xu , Dingyi Zhuang , Yunhan Zheng , Jinhua Zhao

Recommending routes by their probability of having a rider has long been the goal of conventional route recommendation systems. While this maximizes the platform-specific criteria of efficiency, it results in sub-optimal outcomes with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi , Iqra Altaf Gillani

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…

In e-retail, order fulfillment speed has become one of the most important metrics affecting customer satisfaction. While common wisdom dictates that maintaining a large global fulfillment network maximizes efficiency via economies of scale,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Daniel Hathcock , R. Ravi , Amitabh Sinha

We study the sequential decision-making problem of allocating a limited resource to agents that reveal their stochastic demands on arrival over a finite horizon. Our goal is to design fair allocation algorithms that exhaust the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Eleonora Kreacic , Sihan Zeng , Yuchen Xiao , Sumitra Ganesh

In this paper, we consider the problem of hosting financial exchanges in the cloud. Financial exchanges require predictable, equal latency to all market participants to ensure fairness for various tasks, such as high speed trading. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Prateesh Goyal , Eashan Gupta , Ilias Marinos , Chenxingyu Zhao , Radhika Mittal , Ranveer Chandra

In addition to its crucial impact on customer satisfaction, last-mile delivery (LMD) is notorious for being the most time-consuming and costly stage of the shipping process. Pressing environmental concerns combined with the recent surge of…

In the evolving field of machine learning, ensuring group fairness has become a critical concern, prompting the development of algorithms designed to mitigate bias in decision-making processes. Group fairness refers to the principle that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Teresa Salazar , João Gama , Helder Araújo , Pedro Henriques Abreu

Information exchange is a crucial component of many real-world multi-agent systems. However, the communication between the agents involves two major challenges: the limited bandwidth, and the shared communication medium between the agents,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Majid Raeis , S. Jamaloddin Golestani

We develop a parsimonious model of an e-commerce fulfillment center that offers time-dependent shipment options and corresponding fees to utility-maximizing customers arriving according to a Poisson process. For any such policy, we provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Uta Mohring , Melvin Drent , Ivo Adan , Willem van Jaarsveld

After a decade of on-demand mobility services that change spatial behaviors in metropolitan areas, the Shared Autonomous Vehicle (SAV) service is expected to increase traffic congestion and unequal access to transport services. A paradigm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Ronit Purian , Daniel Polani

Clustered federated Multitask learning is introduced as an efficient technique when data is unbalanced and distributed amongst clients in a non-independent and identically distributed manner. While a similarity metric can provide client…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Abegaz Mohammed , Aiman Erbad , Octavia A. Dobre

Disaster relief operations often take place under uncertainty regarding the extent of damage across locations. In this paper, we study the delivery of relief aid in the aftermath of disasters when delivery vehicles are assisted by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Aaron Neugebauer , Alena Otto , Marie Schmidt

Fast shipping and efficient routing are key problems of modern logistics. Building on previous studies that address package delivery from a source node to a destination within a graph using multiple agents (such as vehicles, drones, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Simon Bartlmae , Andreas Hene , Kelin Luo

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents in an online setting, where goods arrive sequentially and must be allocated irrevocably. Focusing on the popular fairness notions of envy-freeness, proportionality, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Jannik Peters , Nicholas Teh

As the popularity of electric vehicles increases, the demand for more power can increase more rapidly than our ability to install additional generating capacity. In the long term we expect that the supply and demand will become balanced.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yingjie Zhou , Nicholas Maxemchuk , Xiangying Qian , Chen Wang

The theory of discrete-time online learning has been successfully applied in many problems that involve sequential decision-making under uncertainty. However, in many applications including contractual hiring in online freelancing platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Semih Cayci , Swati Gupta , Atilla Eryilmaz

Machine learning (ML) is playing an increasing role in decision-making tasks that directly affect individuals, e.g., loan approvals, or job applicant screening. Significant concerns arise that, without special provisions, individuals from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Sina Shaham , Gabriel Ghinita , Cyrus Shahabi