We consider a problem where customers dynamically request next-day home service, e.g., repair or instalment. Unlike attended home delivery, customers cannot select a time window (TW), but the service provider assigns a next-day TW to each new customer if the customer can feasibly be inserted in...

Policy makers constantly face optimal control problems: what controls allow to achieve certain targets in, e.g., GDP growth or inflation? Conventionally this is done by applying certain linear-quadratic optimization algorithms to dynamic econometric models. Several algorithms extend this...