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Demand forecasting is a cornerstone of e-commerce operations, directly impacting inventory planning and fulfillment scheduling. However, existing forecasting systems often fail during high-impact periods such as flash sales, holiday…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Congcong Hu , Yuang Shi , Fan Huang , Yang Xiang , Zhou Ye , Ming Jin , Shiyu Wang

Problem definition: Supply chains are constantly evolving networks. Reinforcement learning is increasingly proposed as a solution to provide optimal control of these networks. Academic/practical: However, learning in continuously varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Wan Wang , Haiyan Wang , Adam J. Sobey

We revisit the well-known online traveling salesman problem (OLTSP) and its extension, the online dial-a-ride problem (OLDARP). A server starting at a designated origin in a metric space, is required to serve online requests, and return to…

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Online meal delivery is undergoing explosive growth, as this service is becoming increasingly popular. A meal delivery platform aims to provide excellent and stable services for customers and restaurants. However, in reality, several…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Zhuolin Wu , Li Wang , Fangsheng Huang , Linjun Zhou , Yu Song , Chengpeng Ye , Pengyu Nie , Hao Ren , Jinghua Hao , Renqing He , Zhizhao Sun

This paper presents a deep learning framework based on Long Short-term Memory Network(LSTM) that predicts price movement of cryptocurrencies from trade-by-trade data. The main focus of this study is on predicting short-term price changes in…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-16 Qi Zhao

Short-term load forecasting is one of the crucial sections in smart grid. Precise forecasting enables system operators to make reliable unit commitment and power dispatching decisions. With the advent of big data, a number of artificial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-27 Tiantian Li , Bo Wang , Min Zhou , Junzo Watada

The development of large language models (LLMs) has provided new tools for research in supply chain management (SCM). In this paper, we introduce a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework that dynamically integrates external…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Haojie Wang , Jiuyun Jiang , L. Jeff Hong , Guangxin Jiang

Predictive Autoscaling is used to forecast the workloads of servers and prepare the resources in advance to ensure service level objectives (SLOs) in dynamic cloud environments. However, in practice, its prediction task often suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hongyan Hao , Zhixuan Chu , Shiyi Zhu , Gangwei Jiang , Yan Wang , Caigao Jiang , James Zhang , Wei Jiang , Siqiao Xue , Jun Zhou

The continuous-review (s,S) inventory model is a cornerstone of stochastic inventory theory, yet its analysis becomes analytically intractable when dealing with non-Markovian systems. In such systems, evaluating long-run performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Eliran Sherzer , Yonit Barron

Ensuring sustainability demands more efficient energy management with minimized energy wastage. Therefore, the power grid of the future should provide an unprecedented level of flexibility in energy management. To that end, intelligent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Daniel L. Marino , Kasun Amarasinghe , Milos Manic

Aggregating distributed energy resources in power systems significantly increases uncertainties, in particular caused by the fluctuation of renewable energy generation. This issue has driven the necessity of widely exploiting advanced…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Wei Jiang , Zhongkai Yi , Li Wang , Hanwei Zhang , Jihai Zhang , Fangquan Lin , Cheng Yang

This study develops a digitalized forecasting-inventory optimization pipeline integrating traditional forecasting models, machine learning regressors, and deep sequence models within a unified inventory simulation framework. Using the M5…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Swata Marik , Swayamjit Saha , Garga Chatterjee

There is an opportunity in modern power systems to explore the demand flexibility by incentivizing consumers with dynamic prices. In this paper, we quantify demand flexibility using an efficient tool called time-varying elasticity, whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Guangchun Ruan , Daniel S. Kirschen , Haiwang Zhong , Qing Xia , Chongqing Kang

In modern e-commerce and service operations, firms must jointly manage inventory replenishment and real-time order fulfillment to maximize profit under demand uncertainty. While each component has been studied extensively in isolation,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Zi Ling , Jiashuo Jiang , Linwei Xin

This article intends to systematically identify and comparatively analyze state-of-the-art supply chain (SC) forecasting strategies and technologies. A novel framework has been proposed incorporating Big Data Analytics in SC Management…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Md Abrar Jahin , Md Sakib Hossain Shovon , Jungpil Shin , Istiyaque Ahmed Ridoy , M. F. Mridha

Time Series Supplier Allocation (TSSA) poses a complex NP-hard challenge, aimed at refining future order dispatching strategies to satisfy order demands with maximum supply efficiency fully. Traditionally derived from financial portfolio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Jiayuan Luo , Wentao Zhang , Yuchen Fang , Xiaowei Gao , Dingyi Zhuang , Hao Chen , Xinke Jiang

High-quality data is scarce in large language model (LLM) training, yet how to schedule its use jointly with training dynamics lacks theoretical guidance. We extend functional scaling laws by incorporating a data-quality dimension, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhitao Zhu , Xili Wang , Shizhe Wu , Jiawei Fu , Xiaoqing Liu

We present a deep learning approach for forecasting short-term employment changes and assessing long-term industry health using labor market data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Our system leverages a Long- and Short-Term…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-07-04 Adam Nelson-Archer , Aleia Sen , Meena Al Hasani , Sofia Davila , Jessica Le , Omar Abbouchi

We study an online linear programming (OLP) model in which inventory is not provided upfront but instead arrives gradually through an exogenous stochastic replenishment process. This replenishment-based formulation captures operational…

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