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Congestion pricing has become an effective instrument for traffic demand management on road networks. This paper proposes an optimal control approach for congestion pricing for day-to-day timescale that incorporates demand uncertainty and…

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Most conventional heterogeneous network selection strategies applied in heterogeneous vehicular network regard the performance of each network constant in various traffic scenarios. This assumption leads such strategies to be ineffective in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xiangmo Zhao , Xiaochi Li , Zhigang Xu , Ting Chen

Multiple machine learning and prediction models are often used for the same prediction or recommendation task. In our recent work, where we develop and deploy airline ancillary pricing models in an online setting, we found that among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Naman Shukla , Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson , Lavanya Marla , Kartik Yellepeddi

The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) introduces complex spatiotemporal demand management challenges for charging station operators (CSOs), exacerbated by demand imbalances, behavioral heterogeneity, and system uncertainty.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yongqi Zhang , Dong Ngoduy , Li Duan , Mingchang Zhu , Zhuo Chen

We study the network pricing problem where the leader maximizes their revenue by determining the optimal amounts of tolls to charge on a set of arcs, under the assumption that the followers will react rationally and choose the shortest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Quang Minh Bui , Bernard Gendron , Margarida Carvalho

We study a model of congestible resources, where pricing and scheduling are intertwined. Motivated by the problem of pricing cloud instances, we model a cloud computing service as linked $GI/GI/\cdot$ queuing systems where the provider…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Vineet Abhishek , Ian A. Kash , Peter Key

Traditionally, Internet Access Providers (APs) only charge end-users for Internet access services; however, to recoup infrastructure costs and increase revenues, some APs have recently adopted two-sided pricing schemes under which both…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Xin Wang , Richard T. B. Ma , Yinlong Xu

Session-based recommendation intends to predict next purchased items based on anonymous behavior sequences. Numerous economic studies have revealed that item price is a key factor influencing user purchase decisions. Unfortunately, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Fenglong Ma , Chenliang Li , Yuan Lin , Hongfei Lin

In this paper, we address the joint optimization of fleet size and mix, along with vehicle routing, under uncertain customer demand. We propose a two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming model, where first-stage decisions concern the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Paolo Beatrici , Sebastian Birolini , Francesca Maggioni , Paolo Malighetti

Classical deterministic optimal control problems assume full information about the controlled process. The theory of control for general partially-observable processes is powerful, but the methods are computationally expensive and typically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Dongping Qi , Adam Dhillon , Alexander Vladimirsky

Opportunistic computing is a paradigm for completely self-organised pervasive networks. Instead of relying only on fixed infrastructures as the cloud, users' devices act as service providers for each other. They use pairwise contacts to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Davide Mascitti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella , Laura Ricci , Sajal K. Das

We propose a robust method of discrete choice analysis when agents' choice sets are unobserved. Our core model assumes nothing about agents' choice sets apart from their minimum size. Importantly, it leaves unrestricted the dependence,…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-02-11 Levon Barseghyan , Maura Coughlin , Francesca Molinari , Joshua C. Teitelbaum

Optimizing car sharing systems under demand uncertainty is an emerging problem for ensuring profitable and sustainable operations of these services while taking into account quality of service concerns. With the increasing adoption of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Sinan Emre Kosunda , Beste Basciftci , Esra Koca

Temperature control in refrigerated delivery vehicles is critical for preserving product quality, yet existing approaches neglect critical operational uncertainties, such as stochastic door opening durations and heterogeneous initial…

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This paper studies how to maximize a spectrum database operator's expected revenue in sharing spectrum to secondary users, through joint pricing and admission control of spectrum resources. A unique feature of our model is the consideration…

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On-demand transport services in the form of dial-a-ride and taxis are crucial parts of the transport infrastructure in all major cities. However, not all on-demand transport services are equal. In particular, not-for-profit dial-a-ride…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Malcolm Egan , Michal Jakob

We study a stochastic network that consists of a set of servers processing multiple classes of jobs. Each class of jobs requires a concurrent occupancy of several servers while being processed, and each server is shared among the job…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Heng-Qing Ye , David D. Yao

It can be profitable for vehicle service providers to set service prices based on users' travel demand on different origin-destination pairs. The prior studies on the spatial pricing of vehicle service rely on the assumption that providers…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Haoran Yu , Ermin Wei , Randall A. Berry

An operator-assisted user-provided network (UPN) has the potential to achieve a low cost ubiquitous Internet connectivity, without significantly increasing the network infrastructure investment. In this paper, we consider such a network…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Lin Gao , Jianwei Huang , Babak Hossein Khalaj