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Combinatorial Auctions are a central problem in Algorithmic Mechanism Design: pricing and allocating goods to buyers with complex preferences in order to maximize some desired objective (e.g., social welfare, revenue, or profit). The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Avrim Blum , Anupam Gupta , Yishay Mansour , Ankit Sharma

Selling reserved instances (or virtual machines) is a basic service in cloud computing. In this paper, we consider a more flexible pricing model for instance reservation, in which a customer can propose the time length and number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Jia Zhang , Weidong Ma , Tao Qin , Xiaoming Sun , Tie-Yan Liu

Revenue management can enable airline corporations to maximize the revenue generated from each scheduled flight departing in their transportation network by means of finding the optimal policies for differential pricing, seat inventory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Syed Arbab Mohd Shihab , Caleb Logemann , Deepak-George Thomas , Peng Wei

We present tight bounds and heuristics for personalized, multi-product pricing problems. Under mild conditions we show that the best price in the direction of a positive vector results in profits that are guaranteed to be at least as large…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-02-17 Guillermo Gallego , Gerardo Berbeglia

Heuristic algorithms have shown a good ability to solve a variety of optimization problems. Stockpile blending problem as an important component of the mine scheduling problem is an optimization problem with continuous search space…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Yue Xie , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

We study a stylized dynamic assortment planning problem during a selling season of finite length $T$. At each time period, the seller offers an arriving customer an assortment of substitutable products and the customer makes the purchase…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-22 Xi Chen , Chao Shi , Yining Wang , Yuan Zhou

A fundamental task underlying many important optimization problems, from influence maximization to sensor placement to content recommendation, is to select the optimal group of $k$ items from a larger set. Submodularity has been very…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jon Kleinberg , Emily Ryu , Éva Tardos

Optimising queries in real-world situations under imperfect conditions is still a problem that has not been fully solved. We consider finding the optimal order in which to execute a given set of selection operators under partial ignorance…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Khaled H. Alyoubi , Sven Helmer , Peter T. Wood

Optimal shelflisting invites profit maximization to become sensitive to the ways in which purchasing decisions are order-dependent. We study the computational complexity of the corresponding product arrangement problem when consumers are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yongjie Yang , Dinko Dimitrov

In this paper, we solve the multiple product price optimization problem under interval uncertainties of the price sensitivity parameters in the demand function. The objective of the price optimization problem is to maximize the overall…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Mahdi Hamzeei , Alvin Lim , Jiefeng Xu

Motivated by modern-day applications such as Attended Home Delivery and Preference-based Group Scheduling, where decision makers wish to steer a large number of customers toward choosing the exact same alternative, we introduce a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Omar El Housni , Marouane Ibn Brahim , Danny Segev

The Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP) is a classical inventory management problem, that aims to model the trade-off between coordinating orders for multiple commodities (and their cost) with holding costs incurred by meeting demand in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-13 David Shmoys , Varun Suriyanarayana , Seeun William Umboh

We consider the multi-item inventory lot-sizing problem with supplier selection. The problem consists of determining an optimal purchasing plan in order to satisfy dynamic deterministic demands for multiple items over a finite planning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-22 Leopoldo E. Cárdenas-Barrón , Rafael A. Melo , Marcio C. Santos

Travel providers such as airlines and on-line travel agents are becoming more and more interested in understanding how passengers choose among alternative itineraries when searching for flights. This knowledge helps them better display and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-19 Alejandro Mottini , Rodrigo Acuna-Agost

We introduce an efficient computational framework for solving a class of multi-marginal martingale optimal transport problems, which includes many robust pricing problems of large financial interest. Such problems are typically…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-03-21 Linn Engström , Sigrid Källblad , Johan Karlsson

We consider an assortment selection and pricing problem in which a seller has $N$ different items available for sale. In each round, the seller observes a $d$-dimensional contextual preference information vector for the user, and offers to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yigit Efe Erginbas , Thomas A. Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

We introduce and study a class of optimization problems we coin replenishment problems with fixed turnover times: a very natural model that has received little attention in the literature. Nodes with capacity for storing a certain commodity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Thomas Bosman , Martijn van Ee , Yang Jiao , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , R. Ravi , Leen Stougie

In this paper, we introduce a Bayesian revenue-maximizing mechanism design model where the items have fixed, exogenously-given prices. Buyers are unit-demand and have an ordinal ranking over purchasing either one of these items at its given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Will Ma

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

As Kalyan T. Talluri and Garrett J. Van Ryzin describe in their work [3], Revenue Management aims to maximize an organization's revenue by considering three types of decision categories: structural, pricing, and quantity. In this document,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Julien Laasri , Marc Revol