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In the online metric bipartite matching problem, we are given a set $S$ of server locations in a metric space. Requests arrive one at a time, and on its arrival, we need to immediately and irrevocably match it to a server at a cost which is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Sharath Raghvendra

We study a general problem of allocating limited resources to heterogeneous customers over time under model uncertainty. Each type of customer can be serviced using different actions, each of which stochastically consumes some combination…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Wang Chi Cheung , Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi , Xinshang Wang

In pursuit of enhancing the comprehensive efficiency of production systems, our study focused on the joint optimization problem of scheduling and machine maintenance in scenarios where product rework occurs. The primary challenge lies in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Yilan Shen , Boyang Li , Xi Zhang

We study the problem of online resource allocation, where multiple customers arrive sequentially and the seller must irrevocably allocate resources to each incoming customer while also facing a procurement cost for the total allocation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Mitas Ray , Omid Sadeghi , Lillian J. Ratliff , Maryam Fazel

In this work we investigate the problem of order batching and picker routing in storage areas. These are labour and capital intensive problems, often responsible for a substantial share of warehouse operating costs. In particular, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Cristiano Arbex Valle , John E Beasley , Alexandre Salles da Cunha

We consider a parallel system of $m$ identical machines prone to unpredictable crashes and restarts, trying to cope with the continuous arrival of tasks to be executed. Tasks have different computational requirements (i.e., processing time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Elli Zavou , Antonio Fernández Anta

We study a variation of the canonical online resource allocation problem in which resources are throughput, rather than budget, constrained. As in the classical setting, the decision-maker must assign sequentially arriving jobs to one of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Chamsi Hssaine , Huseyin Topaloglu , Garrett van Ryzin

We study an online learning problem on dynamic pricing and resource allocation, where we make joint pricing and inventory decisions to maximize the overall net profit. We consider the stochastic dependence of demands on the price, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianyu Xu , Xuan Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Jiashuo Jiang

Advance reservation is important to guarantee the quality of services of jobs by allowing exclusive access to resources over a defined time interval on resources. It is a challenge for the scheduler to organize available resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Bo Li , Yijian Pei , Bin Shen , Hao Wu , Min He , Jundong Yang

E-commerce operations are essentially online, with customer orders arriving dynamically. However, very little is known about the performance of online policies for warehousing with respect to optimality, particularly for order picking and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Catherine Lorenz , Alena Otto , Michel Gendreau

Reallocation scheduling is one of the most fundamental problems in various areas such as supply chain management, logistics, and transportation science. In this paper, we introduce the reallocation problem that models the scheduling in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Toshimasa Ishii , Jun Kawahara , Kazuhisa Makino , Hirotaka Ono

We study the dynamic pricing and replenishment problems under inconsistent decision frequencies. Different from the traditional demand assumption, the discreteness of demand and the parameter within the Poisson distribution as a function of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yi Zheng , Zehao Li , Peng Jiang , Yijie Peng

Motivated by applications where a system must remain operational via continual procurement of contracts, we study two online contract selection problems under uncertain prices. At each time step, a price drawn from a known distribution is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qinge Chi , Sebastian Perez-Salazar

In warehouse logistics, parcels released from the outfeed of an automated storage system must be routed through conveyor networks to workstations. Beyond collision avoidance, practical operations impose an additional requirement of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Takuro Kato , Keisuke Okumura

This paper studies an online replication problem for distributed data access. The goal is to dynamically create and delete data copies in a multi-server system as time passes to minimize the total storage and network cost of serving access…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Tianyu Zuo , Xueyan Tang , Bu Sung Lee

Online linear programming (OLP) has gained significant attention from both researchers and practitioners due to its extensive applications, such as online auction, network revenue management, order fulfillment and advertising. Existing OLP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Guokai Li , Zizhuo Wang , Jingwei Zhang

We consider the online Minimum-Cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem introduced by Emek et al. (STOC 2016), in which a general metric space is given, and requests are submitted in different times in this space by an adversary.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yossi Azar , Amit Jacob-Fanani

The main contribution of this paper resides in developing a new algorithmic approach for addressing the continuous-time joint replenishment problem, termed $\Psi$-pairwise alignment. The latter mechanism, through which we synchronize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Danny Segev

The Joint Routing-Assignment (JRA) optimization problem simultaneously determines the assignment of items to placeholders and a Hamiltonian cycle that visits each node pair exactly once, with the objective of minimizing total travel cost.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qilong Yuan

In this paper, we are concerned with the automated exchange of orders between logistics companies in a marketplace platform to optimize total revenues. We introduce a novel multi-agent approach to this problem, focusing on the Collaborative…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Paul Mingzheng Tang , Ba Phong Tran , Hoong Chuin Lau