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A monopolist wishes to maximize her profits by finding an optimal price policy. After she announces a menu of products and prices, each agent $x$ will choose to buy that product $y(x)$ which maximizes his own utility, if positive. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Robert J. McCann , Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang

We study assortment and price optimization under the generalized nested logit (GNL) model, one of the most general and flexible modeling frameworks in discrete choice modeling. Despite its modeling advantages, optimization under GNL is…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-09 Hoang Giang Pham , Tien Mai

Strategic bidding problems in electricity markets are widely studied in power systems, often by formulating complex bi-level optimization problems that are hard to solve. The state-of-the-art approach to solve such problems is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Mahdi Ghamkhari , Ashkan Sadeghi-Mobarakeh , Hamed Mohsenian-Rad

In this paper, we introduce, in a Hilbert space setting, a second order dynamical system with asymptotically vanishing damping and vanishing Tikhonov regularization that approaches a multiobjective optimization problem with convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Radu Ioan Bot , Konstantin Sonntag

We consider several classes of highly important semidefinite optimization problems that involve both a convex objective function (smooth or nonsmooth) and additional linear or nonlinear smooth and convex constraints, which are ubiquitous in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Dan Garber , Atara Kaplan

In this paper we consider multidimensional mechanism design problem for selling discrete substitutable items to a group of buyers. Previous work on this problem mostly focus on stochastic description of valuations used by the seller.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Maciej Drwal

In this work, we consider constrained stochastic optimization problems under hidden convexity, i.e., those that admit a convex reformulation via non-linear (but invertible) map $c(\cdot)$. A number of non-convex problems ranging from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Ilyas Fatkhullin , Niao He , Yifan Hu

MINLO (mixed-integer nonlinear optimization) formulations of the disjunction between the origin and a polytope via a binary indicator variable have broad applicability in nonlinear combinatorial optimization, for modeling a fixed cost $c$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Luze Xu , Jon Lee

In certain electricity markets, because of non-convexities that arise from their operating characteristics, generators that follow the independent system operator's (ISO's) decisions may fail to recover their cost through sales of energy at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Bowen Hua , Ross Baldick

Submodular set-functions have many applications in combinatorial optimization, as they can be minimized and approximately maximized in polynomial time. A key element in many of the algorithms and analyses is the possibility of extending the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Francis Bach

For a linear equality constrained convex optimization problem involving two objective functions with a ``nonsmooth" + ``nonsmooth" composite structure, we study two algorithms derived from a mixed-order dynamical system which incorporates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Geng-Hua Li , Hai-Yi Zhao , Xiangkai Sun

The Rank Pricing Problem (RPP) is a challenging bilevel optimization problem with binary variables whose objective is to determine the optimal pricing strategy for a set of products to maximize the total benefit, given that customer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Asunción Jiménez-Cordero , Salvador Pineda , Juan Miguel Morales

We study huge-scale assortment optimization problems to maximize expected revenue under customer choice, addressing a fundamental challenge in industries such as transportation, retail, and healthcare. The choice-based linear programming…

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This paper addresses the challenging issue of symmetry in mixed-integer convex optimization problems, which frequently arise in real-world applications such as the unit commitment problem. Although variable aggregation techniques have been…

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In logistic applications that require the pickup and delivery of items, route optimization problems can be modeled as precedence constrained traveling salesperson problems. The combinatorial nature of this problem restricts the application…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Mithun Goutham , Stephanie Stockar

Consider the seller's problem of finding optimal prices for her $n$ (divisible) goods when faced with a set of $m$ consumers, given that she can only observe their purchased bundles at posted prices, i.e., revealed preferences. We study…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Ziwei Ji , Ruta Mehta , Matus Telgarsky

This paper derives a discrete dual problem for a prototypical hybrid high-order method for convex minimization problems. The discrete primal and dual problem satisfy a weak convex duality that leads to a priori error estimates with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Ngoc Tien Tran

Building on ideas from online convex optimization, we propose a general framework for the design of efficient securities markets over very large outcome spaces. The challenge here is computational. In a complete market, in which one…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-10 Jacob Abernethy , Yiling Chen , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

This paper studies the static economic optimization problem of a system with a single aggregator and multiple prosumers in a Real-Time Balancing Market (RTBM). The aggregator, as the agent responsible for portfolio balancing, needs to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Koorosh Shomalzadeh , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen , M. Kanat Camlibel