When a disaster strikes an area, often international assistance is requested to help responding to and recovering from the disaster. The response is often characterized by the dispatch of relief items to the affected regions via depots from Humanitarian Logistics Service Providers (HLSPs). One...

The NP-hard nature of cardinality constrained mean-variance portfolio optimization problems has led to a variety of different algorithms with varying degrees of success in reaching optimality given limited computational resources and under the presence of strict time constraints in practice. The...

Should automation be regulated? This paper studies optimal tax of robot and regulation of automation. A job assignment model is embedded into a Mirrleesian tax problem. A task may either be assigned to the robot or one type of labors, which naturally determines the automation rate. The robot can...