Sales promotions are important in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry due to the significant spending on promotions and the fact that a large proportion of FMCG products are sold on promotion. This paper considers the problem of planning sales promotions for a FMCG product in a...

This paper is motivated from a collaboration with a start-up delivering on-demand health care services. In this setting, nurse practitioners need to be dynamically routed to patients' houses as service requests are received. We solve this problem using approximate dynamic programming and machine...

We study the problem of optimizing a tree-based ensemble objective with the feasible decisions lie in a polyhedral set. We model this optimization problem as a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP). We show this model can be solved to optimality efficiently using Pareto optimal Benders cuts. For...