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This paper focuses on the Facility Location Problem with Bernoulli Demand, a discrete facility location problem with uncertainty where the joint distribution of the customers' demands is expressed by means of a set of possible scenarios. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Maria Albareda-Sambola , Elena Fernández , Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama

Preference alignment methods are increasingly critical for steering large language models (LLMs) to generate outputs consistent with human values. While recent approaches often rely on synthetic data generated by LLMs for scalability and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mingye Zhu , Yi Liu , Zheren Fu , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao

Motivated by scheduling in Geo-distributed data analysis, we propose a target location problem for multi-commodity flow (LoMuF for short). Given commodities to be sent from their resources, LoMuF aims at locating their targets so that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Xingwu Liu , Zhida Pan , Yuyi Wang

Retailers have significant potential to improve recommendations through strategic bundling and pricing. By taking into account different types of customers and their purchasing decisions, retailers can better accommodate customer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Maxime Bouscary , Mazen Danaf , Saurabh Amin

This paper develops an exact solution framework for the choice-based time slot management problem under mixed logit demand in attended home delivery systems. The problem jointly optimizes delivery slot offerings, price discounts, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Dorsa Abdolhamidi , Carla Juvin , Virginie Lurkin

Location-Based Services (LBSs) provide invaluable aid in the everyday activities of many individuals, however they also pose serious threats to the user' privacy. There is, therefore, a growing interest in the development of mechanisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Serge Haddad , Ali Kassem , Catuscia Palamidessi

Stochastic optimization problems often involve data distributions that change in reaction to the decision variables. This is the case for example when members of the population respond to a deployed classifier by manipulating their features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Lin Xiao

Influence maximization is the problem of finding a set of influential users in a social network such that the expected spread of influence under a certain propagation model is maximized. Much of the previous work has neglected the important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wei Lu , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

This paper addresses the single-item single-stocking location non-stationary stochastic lot-sizing problem under a reorder point -- order quantity control strategy. The reorder points and order quantities are chosen at the beginning of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Xiyuan Ma , Roberto Rossi , Thomas Welsh Archibald

We show that, in a resource allocation problem, the ex ante aggregate utility of players with cumulative-prospect-theoretic preferences can be increased over deterministic allocations by implementing lotteries. We formulate an optimization…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-12-07 Soham R. Phade , Venkat Anantharam

We study the tactical time slot management problem under mixed logit demand for attended home delivery in subscription settings. We propose a static mixed-integer linear programming model that integrates delivery slot assortment, price…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Dorsa Abdolhamidi , Virginie Lurkin

We address a new prize-collecting problem of routing commodities in a given network with hub and non-hub nodes, in which the service of the non-hub nodes will be outsourced to third-party carriers. The problem is modeled as a Stackelberg…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Elena Fernandez , Ivana Ljubic , Nicolas Zerega

Single Row Equidistant Facility Layout Problem SREFLP is with an NP-Hard nature to mimic material handling costs along with equally spaced straight-line facilities layout. Based on literature, it is obvious that efforts of researchers for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Shrouq Gamal , Ahmed A. Hawam , Ahmed M. El-Kassas

This paper considers a problem where multiple users make repeated decisions based on their own observed events. The events and decisions at each time step determine the values of a utility function and a collection of penalty functions. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-13 Michael J. Neely

Uniswap v3 is the largest decentralized exchange for digital currencies. A novelty of its design is that it allows a liquidity provider (LP) to allocate liquidity to one or more closed intervals of the price of an asset instead of the full…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zhou Fan , Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío , Daniel J. Moroz , Michael Neuder , Rithvik Rao , David C. Parkes

A centralized collaboration problem of customer-to-manufacturer (C2M) platform in e-commercial business is studied in this paper, where an e-commercial company and multiple manufacturers come to an agreement for constituting a collaborative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Bo Dai , Fenfen Li

We consider the problem of learning from revealed preferences in an online setting. In our framework, each period a consumer buys an optimal bundle of goods from a merchant according to her (linear) utility function and current prices,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Kareem Amin , Rachel Cummings , Lili Dworkin , Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth

We consider an orienteering problem (OP) where an agent needs to visit a series (possibly a subset) of depots, from which the maximal accumulated profits are desired within given limited time budget. Different from most existing works where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Zhibei Ma , Kai Yin , Lantao Liu , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

The assortment problem in revenue management is the problem of deciding which subset of products to offer to consumers in order to maximise revenue. A simple and natural strategy is to select the best assortment out of all those that are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Gerardo Berbeglia , Gwenaël Joret

In this paper, we study the cooperative operation problem between the fleet operator and incentive-aware customers in an on-demand delivery system. Specifically, the fleet operator offers discounts on transportation costs in exchange of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Canqi Yao , Shibo Chen , Zaiyue Yang