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A key operational challenge for call centers is to decide, in real time, which waiting customer should be served by which available agent. This is known as skill-based routing, and the decision becomes especially difficult in large systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Baris Ata , Ebru Kasikaralar

Coverage motion planning is essential to a wide range of robotic tasks. Unlike conventional motion planning problems, which reason over temporal sequences of states, coverage motion planning requires reasoning over the spatial distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Max M. Sun , Jueun Kwon , Todd Murphey

A case study of the Singapore road network provides empirical evidence that road pricing can significantly affect commuter trip timing behaviors. In this paper, we propose a model of trip timing decisions that reasonably matches the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-23 Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn , Nan Xiao , Keyou You , Kai Sim , Lihua Xie , Emilio Frazzoli , Daniela Rus

Spurred by the growth of transportation network companies and increasing data capabilities, vehicle routing and ride-matching algorithms can improve the efficiency of private transportation services. However, existing routing solutions do…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Ian Schneider , Jun Jie Joseph Kuan , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther Dahleh

This study addresses the urban transit pattern design problem, optimizing stop sequences, headways, and fleet sizes across multiple routes and periods simultaneously to minimize user costs (composed of riding, waiting, and transfer times)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Max T. M. Ng , Draco Tong , Hani S. Mahmassani , Omer Verbas , Taner Cokyasar

Particle filtering is a popular method for inferring latent states in stochastic dynamical systems, whose theoretical properties have been well studied in machine learning and statistics communities. In many control problems, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Simon S. Du , Wei Hu , Zhiyuan Li , Ruoqi Shen , Zhao Song , Jiajun Wu

This paper addresses a production scheduling problem derived from an industrial use case, focusing on unrelated parallel machine scheduling with the personnel availability constraint. The proposed model optimizes the production plan over a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Maziyar Khadivi , Mostafa Abbasi , Todd Charter , Homayoun Najjaran

We consider the problem of sequential evaluation, in which an evaluator observes candidates in a sequence and assigns scores to these candidates in an online, irrevocable fashion. Motivated by the psychology literature that has studied…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Jingyan Wang , Ashwin Pananjady

Formulating the intended behavior of a dynamic system can be challenging. Signal temporal logic (STL) is frequently used for this purpose due to its suitability in formalizing comprehensible, modular, and versatile spatiotemporal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Patrick Halder , Hannes Homburger , Lothar Kiltz , Johannes Reuter , Matthias Althoff

This document is the third sub-report from the research project SATT (Samplanering av trafikp{\aa}verkande {\aa}tg\"arder och trafikfl\"oden, modellstudie / Coordinated planning of temporary capacity restrictions and traffic flows, model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Tomas Lidén , Martin Aronsson

In this paper, we develop a computationally-efficient approach to minimum-time trajectory optimization using input-output data-based models, to produce an end-to-end data-to-control solution to time-optimal planning/control of dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Nan Li , Ehsan Taheri , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Dimitar Filev

Many state-of-the-art Segment Routing (SR) Traffic Engineering (TE) algorithms rely on Linear Program (LP)-based optimization. However, the poor scalability of the latter and the resulting high computation times impose severe restrictions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Alexander Brundiers , Timmy Schüller , Nils Aschenbruck

Conventional Public Transport (PT) is based on fixed lines, running with routes and schedules determined a-priori. In low-demand areas, conventional PT is inefficient. Therein, Mobility on Demand (MoD) could serve users more efficiently and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Xiaoyi Wu , Nisrine Mouhrim , Andrea Araldo , Yves Molenbruch , Dominique Feillet , Kris Braekers

In this paper, the scheduling problems of landing and takeoff aircraft on a same runway and on dual runways are addressed. In contrast to the approaches based on mixed-integer optimization models in existing works, our approach focuses on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Peng Lin , Haopeng Yang , Gui Gui , Mengxiang Zeng , Weihua Gui

In [Q. Liao et al., Commun. Math. Sci., 20(2022)], a linear-time Sinkhorn algorithm is developed based on dynamic programming, which significantly reduces the computational complexity involved in solving optimal transport problems. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Ziyuan Lyu , Zihao Wang , Hao Wu , Shuai Yang

Real-life parallel machine scheduling problems can be characterized by: (i) limited information about the exact task duration at scheduling time, and (ii) an opportunity to reschedule the remaining tasks each time a task processing is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Izack Cohen , Krzysztof Postek , Shimrit Shtern

This work introduces an integrated approach to optimizing urban traffic by combining predictive modeling of vehicle flow, adaptive traffic signal control, and a modular integration architecture through distributed messaging. Using real-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Ismail Zrigui , Samira Khoulji , Mohamed Larbi Kerkeb

We consider a stylized formal model of public transportation, where a set of agents need to travel along a given road, and there is a bus that runs the length of this road. Each agent has a left terminal and a right terminal between which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Martin Bullinger , Edith Elkind , Mohamad Latifian

We study a spatiotemporal service matching problem in which demand, heterogeneous in location and time sensitivity/preference, is to be assigned to service stations. The planner seeks to maximize social welfare, defined as total service…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-17 Mingyang Fu , Ming Hu

In this paper we describe COLIN, a forward-chaining heuristic search planner, capable of reasoning with COntinuous LINear numeric change, in addition to the full temporal semantics of PDDL. Through this work we make two advances to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Amanda J. Coles , Andrew I. Coles , Maria Fox , Derek Long