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Recent studies and industry advancements indicate that modular vehicles (MVs) have the potential to enhance transportation systems through their ability to dock and split during a trip. Although various applications of MVs have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Hang Zhou , Yang Li , Chengyuan Ma , Keke Long , Xiaopeng Li

In a growing retail electricity market, demand response (DR) is becoming an integral part of the system to enhance economic and operational performances. This is rendered as incentive-based DR (IBDR) in the proposed study. It presents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Vipin Chandra Pandey , Nikhil Gupta , Khaleequr Rehman Niazi , Anil Swarnkar , Tanuj Rawat , Charalambos Konstantinou

A Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints (MPEC) is formulated to capture the relationships between multiple Mobility Service Providers (MSPs) and the users of a multi-modal transport network. The network supply structure is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Claudia Bandiera , Richard D. Connors , Francesco Viti

In this paper, we study a facility location problem within a competitive market context, where customer demand is predicted by a random utility choice model. Unlike prior research, which primarily focuses on simple constraints such as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hoang Giang Pham , Tien Thanh Dam , Ngan Ha Duong , Tien Mai , Minh Hoang Ha

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) manufacture, inventory and transport new vehicles to franchised dealers. These franchised dealers inventory and sell new vehicles to end users. OEMs rely on logistics companies with a special type of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Saravanan Venkatachalam , Kaarthik Sundar

Hydrogen is an energy vector, and one possible way to reduce CO 2 emissions. This paper focuses on a hydrogen transport problem where mobile storage units are moved by trucks between sources to be refilled and destinations to meet demands,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Raian Lefgoum , Sezin Afsar , Pierre Carpentier , Jean-Philippe Chancelier , Michel de Lara

This paper studies the resource allocation problem for a heterogeneous network (HetNet) in which the spectrum owned by a macro-cell operator (MCO) can be shared by both unlicensed users (UUs) and licensed users (LUs). We formulate a novel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Pu Yuan , Yong Xiao , Guoan Bi , Liren Zhang

This paper considers two important problems -- on the supply-side and demand-side respectively and studies both in a unified framework. On the supply side, we study the problem of energy sharing among microgrids with the goal of maximizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Diddigi Raghuram Bharadwaj , Sai Koti Reddy Danda , Krishnasuri Narayanam , Shalabh Bhatnagar

Mobile edge computing seeks to provide resources to different delay-sensitive applications. However, allocating the limited edge resources to a number of applications is a challenging problem. To alleviate the resource scarcity problem, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Faheem Zafari , Jian Li , Kin K Leung , Don Towsley , Ananthram Swami

This paper investigates the scheduling problem of a fleet of electric vehicles, providing mobility as a service to a set of time-specified customers, where the operator needs to solve the routing and charging problem jointly for each EV.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Canqi Yao , Shibo Chen , Mauro Salazar , Zaiyue Yang

Metaverse as the next-generation Internet provides users with physical-virtual world interactions. To improve the quality of immersive experience, users access to Metaverse service providers (MSPs) and purchase bandwidth resource to reduce…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Xumin Huang , Weifeng Zhong , Jiangtian Nie , Qin Hu , Zehui Xiong , Jiawen Kang , Tony Q. S. Quek

ISPs are increasingly selling "tiered" contracts, which offer Internet connectivity to wholesale customers in bundles, at rates based on the cost of the links that the traffic in the bundle is traversing. Although providers have already…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-19 Vytautas Valancius , Cristian Lumezanu , Nick Feamster , Ramesh Johari , Vijay V. Vazirani

We consider a variant of the berth allocation problem-i.e., the multi-port berth allocation problem-aimed at assigning berthing times and positions to vessels in container terminals. This variant involves optimizing vessel travel speeds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Bernardo Martin-Iradi , Dario Pacino , Stefan Ropke

We consider a profit maximization problem in an urban mobility on-demand service, of which the operator owns a fleet, provides both exclusive and shared trip services, and dynamically determines prices of offers. With knowledge of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Han Qiu , Ruimin Li , Jinhua Zhao

We consider robust pricing and hedging for options written on multiple assets given market option prices for the individual assets. The resulting problem is called the multi-marginal martingale optimal transport problem. We propose two…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Stephan Eckstein , Gaoyue Guo , Tongseok Lim , Jan Obloj

In this paper, we investigate the problem of a last-mile delivery service that selects up to $N$ available vehicles to deliver $M$ packages from a centralized depot to $M$ delivery locations. The objective of the last-mile delivery service…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Meera Ratnagiri , Clare O'Dwyer , Logan E. Beaver , Heeseung Bang , Behdad Chalaki , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We consider Stackelberg pricing games, which are also known as bilevel pricing problems, or combinatorial price-setting problems. This family of problems consists of games between two players: the leader and the follower. There is a market…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Christoph Grüne , Dorothee Henke , Eva Rotenberg , Lasse Wulf

This paper explores an idea of demand-supply balance for smart grids in which consumers are expected to play a significant role. The main objective is to motivate the consumer, by maximizing their benefit both as a seller and a buyer, to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Wayes Tushar , Jian A. Zhang , David B. Smith , Sylvie Thiebaux , H. Vincent Poor

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

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