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Ubiquitous mobile computing have enabled ride-hailing services to collect vast amounts of behavioral data of riders and drivers and optimize supply and demand matching in real time. While these mobility service providers have some degree of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Takuma Oda

We consider the adaptive shortest-path routing problem in wireless networks under unknown and stochastically varying link states. In this problem, we aim to optimize the quality of communication between a source and a destination through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-25 Keqin Liu , Qing Zhao

The price of anarchy has become a standard measure of the efficiency of equilibria in games. Most of the literature in this area has focused on establishing worst-case bounds for specific classes of games, such as routing games or more…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Roberto Cominetti , Valerio Dose , Marco Scarsini

We consider the problem of finding an optimal history-dependent routing strategy on a directed graph weighted by stochastic arc costs when the objective is to minimize the risk of spending more than a prescribed budget. To help mitigate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Arthur Flajolet , Sebastien Blandin , Patrick Jaillet

We propose a generalized market equilibrium model using assignment game criteria for evaluating transportation systems that consist of both operators' and users' decisions. The model finds stable pricing, in terms of generalized costs, and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Saeid Rasulkhani , Joseph Y. J. Chow

We propose a method for learning decision-makers' behavior in routing problems using Inverse Optimization (IO). The IO framework falls into the supervised learning category and builds on the premise that the target behavior is an optimizer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Pedro Zattoni Scroccaro , Piet van Beek , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Bilge Atasoy

Routing games are amongst the most well studied domains of game theory. How relevant are these pen-and-paper calculations to understanding the reality of everyday traffic routing? We focus on a semantically rich dataset that captures…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Barnabé Monnot , Francisco Benita , Georgios Piliouras

The availability of massive vehicle trajectory data enables the modeling of road-network constrained movement as travel-cost distributions rather than just single-valued costs, thereby capturing the inherent uncertainty of movement and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Chenjuan Guo , Ronghui Xu , Bin Yang , Ye Yuan , Tung Kieu , Yan Zhao , Christian S. Jensen

Network routing is a distributed decision problem which naturally admits numerical performance measures, such as the average time for a packet to travel from source to destination. OLPOMDP, a policy-gradient reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nigel Tao , Jonathan Baxter , Lex Weaver

We introduce efficient algorithms which achieve nearly optimal regrets for the problem of stochastic online shortest path routing with end-to-end feedback. The setting is a natural application of the combinatorial stochastic bandits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Ruihao Zhu , Eytan Modiano

This paper studies the problem of non-cooperative radio resource scheduling in a vehicle-to-vehicle communication network. The technical challenges lie in high vehicle mobility and data traffic variations. Over the discrete scheduling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Mehdi Bennis , Zhifeng Zhao , Zhu Han

This paper considers the optimization-based traffic allocation problem among multiple end points in connectionless networks. The network utility function is modeled as a non-concave function, since it is the best description of the quality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Jingyao Wang , Mahmoud Ashour , Constantino Lagoa , Necdet Aybat , Hao Che , Zhisheng Duan

We consider some classical optimization problems in path planning and network transport, and we introduce new auction-based algorithms for their optimal and suboptimal solution. The algorithms are based on mathematical ideas that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Dimitri Bertsekas

The input to the stochastic orienteering problem consists of a budget $B$ and metric $(V,d)$ where each vertex $v$ has a job with deterministic reward and random processing time (drawn from a known distribution). The processing times are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-12 Nikhil Bansal , Viswanath Nagarajan

In this paper, we consider a dynamic equilibrium transportation problem. There is a fixed number of cars moving from origin to destination areas. Preferences for arrival times are expressed as a cost of arriving before or after the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Victoria Guseva , Ilya Sklonin , Irina Podlipnova , Demyan Yarmoshik , Alexander Gasnikov

The traffic assignment problem is essential for traffic flow analysis, traditionally solved using mathematical programs under the Equilibrium principle. These methods become computationally prohibitive for large-scale networks due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mostafa Ameli , Sulthana Shams , Van Anh Le , Alexander Skabardonis

Routing is, arguably, the most fundamental task in computer networking, and the most extensively studied one. A key challenge for routing in real-world environments is the need to contend with uncertainty about future traffic demands. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yarin Perry , Felipe Vieira Frujeri , Chaim Hoch , Srikanth Kandula , Ishai Menache , Michael Schapira , Aviv Tamar

In this paper, we tackle the problem of risk-averse route planning in a transportation network with time-dependent and stochastic costs. To solve this problem, we propose an adaptation of the A* algorithm that accommodates any risk measure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Dajian Li , Paul Weng , Orkun Karabasoglu

This paper considers the problem of assigning multiple mobile robots to goals on transport networks with uncertain information about travel times. Our aim is to produce optimal assignments, such that the average waiting time at destinations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Amanda Prorok

This study investigates an adaptive pricing scheme aimed at achieving an efficient state in a traffic congestion game characterized by a diverse population of road users. While the planner possesses knowledge of players' preferences, their…

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