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Warehouse automation plays a pivotal role in enhancing operational efficiency, minimizing costs, and improving resilience to workforce variability. While prior research has demonstrated the potential of machine learning (ML) models to…

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In this paper, we consider the classic stochastic (dynamic) knapsack problem, a fundamental mathematical model in revenue management, with general time-varying random demand. Our main goal is to study the optimal policies, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Yingdong Lu

Efficient truck platooning is a key strategy for reducing freight costs, lowering fuel consumption, and mitigating emissions. Deadlines are critical in this context, as trucks must depart within specific time windows to meet delivery…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Thiago S. Gomides , Evangelos Kranakis , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yannis Viniotis , Gennady Shaikhet

We study data-driven learning of robust stochastic control for infinite-horizon systems with potentially continuous state and action spaces. In many managerial settings--supply chains, finance, manufacturing, services, and dynamic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Shengbo Wang , Jason Meng , Nian Si , Jose Blanchet , Zhengyuan Zhou

Adjustable autonomy refers to entities dynamically varying their own autonomy, transferring decision-making control to other entities (typically agents transferring control to human users) in key situations. Determining whether and when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-24 D. V. Pynadath , P. Scerri , M. Tambe

Dynamic resource management is essential for optimizing computational efficiency in modern high-performance computing (HPC) environments, particularly as systems scale. While research has demonstrated the benefits of malleability in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Sergio Iserte , Iker Martín-Álvarez , Krzysztof Rojek , José I. Aliaga , Maribel Castillo , Weronika Folwarska , Antonio J. Peña

In reinforcement learning (RL) for robotic manipulation, the Decision Transformer (DT) has emerged as an effective framework for addressing long-horizon tasks. However, DT's performance depends heavily on the coverage of collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Kaiyan Zhao , Borong Zhang , Yiming Wang , Xingyu Liu , Xuetao Li , Yuyang Chen , Xiaoguang Niu

In many software systems, heuristics are used to make decisions - such as cache eviction, task scheduling, and information presentation - that have a significant impact on overall system behavior. While machine learning may outperform these…

Since the use of computers in the business world, data collection has become one of the most important issues due to the available knowledge in the data; such data has been stored in the database. The database system was developed which led…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Amro F. Alasta , Muftah A. Enaba

Advances in mobile communication capabilities open the door for closer integration of pre-hospital and in-hospital care processes. For example, medical specialists can be enabled to guide on-site paramedics and can, in turn, be supplied…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Steffen Gracla , Edgar Beck , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

In a warehouse environment, tasks appear dynamically. Consequently, a task management system that matches them with the workforce too early (e.g., weeks in advance) is necessarily sub-optimal. Also, the rapidly increasing size of the action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Diogo S. Carvalho , Biswa Sengupta

Distributed Stream Processing (DSP) focuses on the near real-time processing of large streams of unbounded data. To increase processing capacities, DSP systems are able to dynamically scale across a cluster of commodity nodes, ensuring a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Morgan Geldenhuys , Dominik Scheinert , Odej Kao , Lauritz Thamsen

This paper studies distributed resource allocation problem in multi-agent systems, where all the agents cooperatively minimize the sum of their cost functions with global resource constraints over stochastic communication networks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Tie Ding , Shanying Zhu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

The ability to adapt to changes in environmental contingencies is an important challenge in reinforcement learning. Indeed, transferring previously acquired knowledge to environments with unseen structural properties can greatly enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Ayman Boustati , Hana Chockler , Daniel C. McNamee

As microstructure property models improve, additional information from crystallographic degrees of freedom and grain boundary networks (GBNs) can be included in microstructure design problems. However, the high dimensional nature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-23 Christopher W. Adair , Oliver K. Johnson

We investigate the benefit of using contextual information in data-driven demand predictions to solve the robust capacitated vehicle routing problem with time windows. Instead of estimating the demand distribution or its mean, we introduce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Ali İrfan Mahmutoğulları , Tias Guns

Diffusion-based policies show limited generalization in semantic manipulation, posing a key obstacle to the deployment of real-world robots. This limitation arises because relying solely on text instructions is inadequate to direct the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yihao Wu , Jinming Ma , Junbo Tan , Yanzhao Yu , Shoujie Li , Mingliang Zhou , Diyun Xiang , Xueqian Wang

Handheld devices, while growing rapidly, are inherently constrained and lack the capability of executing resource hungry applications. This paper presents the design and implementation of distributed analysis and load-balancing system for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Naveed Ahmad , Arshad Ali , Ashiq Anjum , Tahir Azim , Julian Bunn , Ali Hassan , Ahsan Ikram , Frank van Lingen , Richard McClatchey , Harvey Newman , Conrad Steenberg , Michael Thomas , Ian Willers

Communication is essential for coordination among humans and animals. Therefore, with the introduction of intelligent agents into the world, agent-to-agent and agent-to-human communication becomes necessary. In this paper, we first study…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Varun Bhatt , Michael Buro

In this paper we present distributed and adaptive algorithms for motion coordination of a group of m autonomous vehicles. The vehicles operate in a convex environment with bounded velocity and must service demands whose time of arrival,…

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