Provably near-optimal sampling-based policies for stochastic inventory control models

R Levi, RO Roundy, DB Shmoys - Mathematics of Operations …, 2007‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
In this paper, we consider two fundamental inventory models, the single-period newsvendor
problem and its multiperiod extension, but under the assumption that the explicit demand …

The framework of parametric and nonparametric operational data analytics

Q Feng, JG Shanthikumar - Production and Operations …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This paper introduces the general philosophy of the Operational Data Analytics (ODA)
framework for data‐based decision modeling. The fundamental development of this …

Price of correlations in stochastic optimization

S Agrawal, Y Ding, A Saberi, Y Ye - Operations Research, 2012‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
When decisions are made in the presence of high-dimensional stochastic data, handling
joint distribution of correlated random variables can present a formidable task, both in terms …

Sampling-based approximation algorithms for multistage stochastic optimization

C Swamy, DB Shmoys - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2012‏ - SIAM
Stochastic optimization problems provide a means to model uncertainty in the input data
where the uncertainty is modeled by a probability distribution over the possible realizations …

Sampling-based approximation schemes for capacitated stochastic inventory control models

WC Cheung, D Simchi-Levi - Mathematics of Operations …, 2019‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the classical multiperiod capacitated stochastic inventory control problems in a
data-driven setting. Instead of assuming full knowledge of the demand distributions, we …

Optimal online assignment with forecasts

E Vee, S Vassilvitskii… - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2010‏ - dl.acm.org
Motivated by the allocation problem facing publishers in display advertising we formulate the
online assignment with forecast problem, a version of the online allocation problem where …

An approximation scheme for stochastic linear programming and its application to stochastic integer programs

DB Shmoys, C Swamy - Journal of the ACM (JACM), 2006‏ - dl.acm.org
Stochastic optimization problems attempt to model uncertainty in the data by assuming that
the input is specified by a probability distribution. We consider the well-studied paradigm of …

Approximation algorithms for budgeted learning problems

S Guha, K Munagala - Proceedings of the thirty-ninth annual ACM …, 2007‏ - dl.acm.org
We present the first approximation algorithms for a large class of budgeted learning
problems. One classicexample of the above is the budgeted multi-armed bandit problem. In …

Approximation algorithms for 2-stage stochastic optimization problems

C Swamy, DB Shmoys - ACM SIGACT News, 2006‏ - dl.acm.org
Uncertainty is a facet of many decision environments and might arise for various reasons,
such as unpredictable information revealed in the future, or inherent fluctuations caused by …

Beating greedy for stochastic bipartite matching

B Gamlath, S Kale, O Svensson - Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual ACM …, 2019‏ - SIAM
We consider the maximum bipartite matching problem in stochastic settings, namely the
query-commit and price-of-information models. In the query-commit model, an edge e …