One of the central issues in online planning is to incorporate forecast information in real time decision making. This often leads to intractable dynamic programming problems. In this work, we study a general class of online planning problems with concave objective functions and global...

The Handbook is a comprehensive research reference that is essential for anyone interested in conducting research in supply chain. Unique features include: -A focus on the intersection of quantitative supply chain analysis and E-Business, -Unlike other edited volumes in the supply chain area,...

We consider the problem of online pricing with offline data, where the decision maker has in hand pre-existed offline data and then takes online sequential actions to maximize expected cumulative revenue as well as learning the optimal pricing. We focus on a simple and specific problem setting...

Problem Definition: Content promotion policies are playing an increasingly important role in improving content consumption and user engagement for online content platforms. However, a frequently used promotion policy generally neglects employing the diffusion effect within a crowd of users. In...