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Inverse optimal control can be used to characterize behavior in sequential decision-making tasks. Most existing work, however, is limited to fully observable or linear systems, or requires the action signals to be known. Here, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Dominik Straub , Matthias Schultheis , Heinz Koeppl , Constantin A. Rothkopf

We present a simple dynamic equilibrium model for an online exchange where both buyers and sellers arrive according to a exogenously defined stochastic process. The structure of this exchange is motivated by the limit order book mechanism…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-02 Garud Iyengar , Anuj Kumar

Online marketplaces increasingly do more than simply match buyers and sellers: they route orders across competing sellers and, in many categories, offer ancillary fulfillment services that make seller inventory a source of platform revenue.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Rene Caldentey , Tong Xie

In this paper, we study the offline sequential feature-based pricing and inventory control problem where the current demand depends on the past demand levels and any demand exceeding the available inventory is lost. Our goal is to leverage…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-12 Korel Gundem , Zhengling Qi

The assortment planning problem is a central piece in the revenue management strategy of any company in the retail industry. In this paper, we study a robust assortment optimization problem for substitutable products under a sequential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Saharnaz Mehrani , Jorge A. Sefair

Since its inception in the mid-60s, the inventory staggering problem has been explored and exploited in a wide range of application domains, such as production planning, stock control systems, warehousing, and aerospace/defense logistics.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Noga Alon , Danny Segev

Bin packing is an algorithmic problem that arises in diverse applications such as remnant inventory systems, shipping logistics, and appointment scheduling. In its simplest variant, a sequence of $T$ items (e.g., orders for raw material,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Varun Gupta , Ana Radovanovic

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

Supply chain management (SCM) has been recognized as an important discipline with applications to many industries, where the two-echelon stochastic inventory model, involving one downstream retailer and one upstream supplier, plays a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Mengxiao Zhang , Shi Chen , Haipeng Luo , Yingfei Wang

Inventory management in warehouses directly affects profits made by manufacturers. Particularly, large manufacturers produce a very large variety of products that are handled by a significantly large number of retailers. In such a case, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Soh Kumabe , Shinya Shiroshita , Takanori Hayashi , Shirou Maruyama

We study a supply chain consisting of production-inventory systems at several locations which are coupled by a common supplier. Demand of customers arrives at each production system according to a Poisson process and is lost if the local…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Sonja Otten

We consider the dynamic assortment optimization problem under the multinomial logit model (MNL) with unknown utility parameters. The main question investigated in this paper is model mis-specification under the $\varepsilon$-contamination…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-12 Xi Chen , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Yining Wang

We investigate the problem of stochastic network optimization in the presence of imperfect state prediction and non-stationarity. Based on a novel distribution-accuracy curve prediction model, we develop the predictive learning-aided…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Longbo Huang , Minghua Chen , Yunxin Liu

This study addresses the difficulties associated with inventory management of products with stochastic demand. The objective is to find the optimal combination of order quantity and reorder point that maximizes profit while considering…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sarit Maitra , Vivek Mishra , Sukanya Kundu

We consider the \mnk{classical} problem of a controller activating (or sampling) sequentially from a finite number of $N \geq 2$ populations, specified by unknown distributions. Over some time horizon, at each time $n = 1, 2, \ldots$, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-18 Wesley Cowan , Michael N. Katehakis

The classic newsvendor model yields an optimal decision for a ``newsvendor'' selecting a quantity of inventory, under the assumption that the demand is drawn from a known distribution. Motivated by applications such as cloud provisioning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Lin An , Andrew A. Li , Benjamin Moseley , R. Ravi

We consider a two-product inventory system with independent Poisson demands, limited joint storage capacity and partial demand substitution. Replenishment is performed simultaneously for both products and the replenishment time may be fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Apostolos N. Burnetas , Odysseas Kanavetas

We study periodic review stochastic inventory control in the data-driven setting where the retailer makes ordering decisions based only on historical demand observations without any knowledge of the probability distribution of the demand.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Xun Zhang , Zhisheng Ye , William B. Haskell

We investigate the problem of serving deferrable and nondeferrable electric demands with colocated stochastic supply and grid-imported electricity. Deferrable demands arrive randomly and can be delayed within their service deadlines.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Minjae Jeon , Lang Tong , Qing Zhao

Most work on sequential learning assumes a fixed set of actions that are available all the time. However, in practice, actions can consist of picking subsets of readings from sensors that may break from time to time, road segments that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Gergely Neu , Michal Valko