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Online Network Resource Allocation (ONRA) for service provisioning is a fundamental problem in communication networks. As a sequential decision-making under uncertainty problem, it is promising to approach ONRA via Reinforcement Learning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Bahador Bakhshi , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy

We study a general model on reusable resource allocation under model uncertainty. A heterogeneous population of customers arrive at the decision maker's (DM's) platform sequentially. Upon observing a customer's type, the DM selects an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Xilin Zhang , Wang Chi Cheung

We introduce a new approach for designing Random-order Contention Resolution Schemes (RCRS) via exact solution in continuous time. Given a function $c(y):[0,1] \rightarrow [0,1]$, we show how to select each element which arrives at time $y…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Calum MacRury , Will Ma

We study a general problem of allocating limited resources to heterogeneous customers over time under model uncertainty. Each type of customer can be serviced using different actions, each of which stochastically consumes some combination…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Wang Chi Cheung , Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi , Xinshang Wang

We consider the problem of online allocation (matching and assortments) of reusable resources where customers arrive sequentially in an adversarial fashion and allocated resources are used or rented for a stochastic duration that is drawn…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Vineet Goyal , Garud Iyengar , Rajan Udwani

We study the performance of sequential contention resolution and matching algorithms on random graphs with vanishing edge probabilities. When the edges of the graph are processed in an adversarially-chosen order, we derive a new OCRS that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Will Ma , Calum MacRury , Pranav Nuti

We present prior robust algorithms for a large class of resource allocation problems where requests arrive one-by-one (online), drawn independently from an unknown distribution at every step. We design a single algorithm that, for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Nikhil R. Devanur , Kamal Jain , Balasubramanian Sivan , Christopher A. Wilkens

Assortment optimization is a critical tool for online retailers aiming to maximize revenue. However, optimizing purely for revenue can lead to unbalanced sales across products, potentially causing a long tail of low-selling products and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Omar El Housni , Qing Feng , Huseyin Topaloglu

We provide a simple $(1-O(\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}))$-selectable Online Contention Resolution Scheme for $k$-uniform matroids against a fixed-order adversary. If $A_i$ and $G_i$ denote the set of selected elements and the set of realized active…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Atanas Dinev , S. Matthew Weinberg

In this paper, we consider an online resource allocation problem where a decision maker accepts or rejects incoming customer requests irrevocably in order to maximize expected reward given limited resources. At each time, a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Guanting Chen , Xiaocheng Li , Yinyu Ye

We study online learning problems in which a decision maker has to take a sequence of decisions subject to $m$ long-term constraints. The goal of the decision maker is to maximize their total reward, while at the same time achieving small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Alberto Marchesi , Giulia Romano , Nicola Gatti

The significant presence of demand charges in electric bills motivates large-load customers to utilize energy storage to reduce the peak procurement from the grid. We herein study the problem of energy storage allocation for peak…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yanfang Mo , Qiulin Lin , Minghua Chen , Si-Zhao Joe Qin

We study the canonical quantity-based network revenue management (NRM) problem where the decision-maker must irrevocably accept or reject each arriving customer request with the goal of maximizing the total revenue given limited resources.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Rui Sun , Xinshang Wang , Zijie Zhou

Optimizing the assortment of products to display to customers is a key to increasing revenue for both offline and online retailers. To trade-off between exploring customers' preference and exploiting customers' choices learned from data, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Hongbin Zhang , Yu Yang , Feng Wu , Qixin Zhang

We consider an online resource allocation problem where multiple resources, each with an individual initial capacity, are available to serve random requests arriving sequentially over multiple discrete time periods. At each time period, one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Jiashuo Jiang , Jiawei Zhang

We study an online learning problem on dynamic pricing and resource allocation, where we make joint pricing and inventory decisions to maximize the overall net profit. We consider the stochastic dependence of demands on the price, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianyu Xu , Xuan Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Jiashuo Jiang

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 assortment and inventory planning problems with dynamic stockout-based substitution effects, and without replenishment, in two different settings: (1) Customers can see all available products when they arrive, a typical scenario…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Shuo Sun , Rajan Udwani , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

The virtualization of wireless networks enables new services to access network resources made available by the Network Operator (NO) through a Network Slicing market. The different service providers (SPs) have the opportunity to lease the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Jean-Baptiste Monteil , George Iosifidis , Ivana Dusparic

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