This book provides one of the first unified accounts of the dynamic aspects involved in the
strategic behavior in queues. The author presents the material in an easy style with mostly …

Problem definition: We study a dynamic market over a finite horizon for a single product or
service in which buyers with private valuations and sellers with private supply costs arrive …

Markov decision processes (MDPs) in queues and networks have been an interesting topic
in many practical areas since the 1960s. This paper Provides a detailed overview on this …

We consider a setting where a platform dynamically allocates a collection of goods that
arrive to the platform in an online fashion to budgeted buyers, as exemplified by online …

In many service settings, customers have to join the queue without being fully aware of the
parameters of the service provider (eg, customers at checkout counters may not know the …

The present paper develops a simple, easy to interpret algorithm for a large class of dynamic
allocation problems with unknown, volatile demand. Potential applications include ad …

We consider a revenue management problem wherein the seller is endowed with a single
type resource with a finite capacity and the resource can be repeatedly used to serve …

Consignment contracts have been widely employed in many industries. Under such
contracts, items are sold at a retailer's but the supplier retains the full ownership of the …

We model a system that consists of a stream of customers processed through three steps by
two resources. The first resource, an investigator, handles the first step, in which she collects …

We consider a model wherein the seller sells a product to customers over an infinite horizon.
At each time, the seller decides a set of purchase options offered to customers and the …