Interconnected and often devastating covariate shocks are a threat to human development. Covariate shocks are shocks that affect large numbers of people or communities at once and can be natural, economic, or political. Occurrence and the human devastation from natural disasters has increased...

Interconnected and often devastating covariate shocks are a threat to human development. Covariate shocks are shocks that affect large numbers of people or communities at once and can be natural, economic, or political. Occurrence and the human devastation from natural disasters has increased...

We present a problem motivated by discussions with Colombian e-commerce platforms for agri-food products. In regular time intervals (periods), the platforms collect groceries from local farmers and stores them at a warehouse to distribute them to local customers. The supply quantities and prices...

Sequential decision-making algorithms are ubiquitous in the design and optimization of large-scale systems due to their practical impact, leading to a renaissance of incorporating machine learning for decision-making. This widespread societal adoption includes improving data centers with...