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Analysis of Optimal Control Problems for Hybrid Systems with One State Variable 单状态变量混合系统的最优控制问题分析
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3424771
P. V. Reddy, J. Schumacher, J. Engwerda
We study a class of discounted autonomous infinite horizon optimal control problems where the state dynamics may undergo discontinuous changes when the state crosses from one region of the state sp...
研究了一类折现自治无限视界最优控制问题,当状态从状态区间的一个区域穿过时,状态动力学可能发生不连续变化。
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引用次数: 5
Discrete Convex Analysis and Its Applications in Operations: A Survey 离散凸分析及其在操作中的应用综述
Pub Date : 2019-12-03 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3549628
Xin Chen, Menglong Li
Discrete convexity, in particular, L-natural-convexity and M-natural-convexity, provides a critical opening to attack several classical problems in inventory theory, as well as many other operations problems that arise from more recent practices, for instance, appointment scheduling and bike-sharing. As a powerful framework, discrete convex analysis is becoming increasingly popular in the literature. This review will survey the landscape of the approach. We start by introducing several key concepts, namely, L-natural-convexity and M-natural-convexity and their variants, followed by a discussion of some fundamental properties that are most useful for studying operations models. We then illustrate various applications of these concepts and properties. Examples include network flow problem, stochastic inventory control, appointment scheduling, game theory, portfolio contract, discrete choice model, and bike-sharing. We focus our discussion on demonstrating how discrete convex analysis can shed new insights on existing problems, and/or bring about much simpler analyses and algorithm developments than previous methods in the literature. We also present several results and analyses that are new to the literature.
离散凸性,特别是l-自然凸性和m -自然凸性,为解决库存理论中的几个经典问题,以及最近实践中出现的许多其他操作问题(例如,预约调度和共享单车)提供了一个关键的开端。作为一个强大的框架,离散凸分析在文献中越来越受欢迎。本文将对该方法的概况进行综述。我们首先介绍几个关键概念,即l-自然凸性和m -自然凸性及其变体,然后讨论对研究操作模型最有用的一些基本性质。然后我们说明这些概念和属性的各种应用。例子包括网络流问题、随机库存控制、预约调度、博弈论、投资组合契约、离散选择模型和共享单车。我们的讨论重点是展示离散凸分析如何对现有问题提供新的见解,和/或带来比文献中先前方法更简单的分析和算法开发。我们还提出了一些新的研究结果和分析。
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引用次数: 14
Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law 基于离线数据的在线定价:相变与平方反比律
Pub Date : 2019-10-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3471501
Jinzhi Bu, D. Simchi-Levi, Yunzong Xu
This paper investigates the impact of pre-existing offline data on online learning in the context of dynamic pricing. We study a single-product dynamic pricing problem over a selling horizon of T periods. The demand in each period is determined by the price of the product according to a linear demand model with unknown parameters. We assume that before the start of the selling horizon, the seller already has some pre-existing offline data. The offline data set contains n samples, each of which is an input-output pair consisting of a historical price and an associated demand observation. The seller wants to use both the pre-existing offline data and the sequentially revealed online data to minimize the regret of the online learning process. We characterize the joint effect of the size, location, and dispersion of the offline data on the optimal regret of the online learning process. Specifically, the size, location, and dispersion of the offline data are measured by the number of historical samples, the distance between the average historical price and the optimal price, and the standard deviation of the historical prices, respectively. For both single-historical-price setting and multiple-historical-price setting, we design a learning algorithm based on the “Optimism in the Face of Uncertainty” principle, which strikes a balance between exploration and exploitation and achieves the optimal regret up to a logarithmic factor. Our results reveal surprising transformations of the optimal regret rate with respect to the size of the offline data, which we refer to as phase transitions. In addition, our results demonstrate that the location and dispersion of the offline data also have an intrinsic effect on the optimal regret, and we quantify this effect via the inverse-square law. This paper was accepted by Omar Besbes, revenue management and market analytics.
本文研究了在动态定价的背景下,已有的离线数据对在线学习的影响。研究了T周期销售视界上的单产品动态定价问题。根据一个参数未知的线性需求模型,各时期的需求由产品的价格决定。我们假设在销售周期开始之前,卖方已经有一些预先存在的离线数据。离线数据集包含n个样本,每个样本都是一个输入输出对,由历史价格和相关需求观察组成。卖家希望同时使用已有的离线数据和顺序显示的在线数据,以最大限度地减少在线学习过程的遗憾。我们描述了离线数据的大小、位置和分散对在线学习过程的最优后悔的联合效应。具体来说,离线数据的大小、位置和分散性分别通过历史样本的数量、历史平均价格与最优价格之间的距离和历史价格的标准差来衡量。对于单历史价格设置和多历史价格设置,我们设计了一种基于“面对不确定性的乐观主义”原则的学习算法,该算法在探索和开发之间取得平衡,并在对数因子范围内实现最优后悔。我们的结果揭示了关于离线数据大小的最优后悔率的惊人转换,我们将其称为相变。此外,我们的研究结果表明,离线数据的位置和分散度对最优后悔也有内在影响,并通过平方反比定律对这种影响进行量化。这篇论文被收入管理和市场分析的Omar Besbes接受。
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引用次数: 20
Tailored Base-Surge Policies in Dual-Sourcing Inventory Systems with Demand Learning 基于需求学习的双源库存系统的定制基数激增策略
Pub Date : 2019-09-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3456834
Boxiao Chen, Cong Shi
We consider a periodic-review dual-sourcing inventory system, in which the expedited supplier is faster and more costly, while the regular supplier is slower and cheaper. Under full demand distributional information, it is well-known that the optimal policy is extremely complex but the celebrated Tailored Base-Surge (TBS) policy performs near optimally. Under such a policy, a constant order is placed at the regular source in each period, while the order placed at the expedited source follows a simple order-up-to rule. In this paper, we assume that the firm does not know the demand distribution a priori, and makes adaptive inventory ordering decisions in each period based only on the past sales (a.k.a. censored demand) data. The standard performance measure is regret, which is the cost difference between a feasible learning algorithm and the clairvoyant (full-information) benchmark. When the benchmark is chosen to be the (full-information) optimal Tailored Base-Surge policy, we develop the first nonparametric learning algorithm that admits a regret bound of O(T^{1/2} (log T)^{3} loglog T), which is provably tight up to a logarithmic factor. Leveraging the structure of this problem, our approach combines the power of bisection search and stochastic gradient descent and also involves a delicate high probability coupling argument between our and the clairvoyant optimal system dynamics. We also develop several technical results that are of independent interest.
我们考虑了一个定期审查的双源库存系统,其中加急供应商更快,成本更高,而常规供应商更慢,成本更低。在充分需求分布信息下,最优策略是极其复杂的,但著名的TBS (Tailored Base-Surge)策略具有接近最优的性能。在这种策略下,在每个期间向常规来源下一个恒定的订单,而在加急来源下的订单遵循一个简单的订单规则。在本文中,我们假设企业不知道先验的需求分布,并且仅根据过去的销售(又称删减需求)数据在每个时期做出自适应的库存订购决策。标准的性能度量是遗憾,这是一个可行的学习算法和千里眼(全信息)基准之间的成本差异。当选择基准作为(全信息)最优定制基涌策略时,我们开发了第一个非参数学习算法,该算法承认0 (T^{1/2} (log T)^{3} logt)的遗憾界,该算法被证明紧到一个对数因子。利用这个问题的结构,我们的方法结合了二分搜索和随机梯度下降的力量,还涉及到我们和千里眼最优系统动力学之间微妙的高概率耦合论证。我们还开发了一些独立感兴趣的技术结果。
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引用次数: 12
A Binary Search Method for the General Coupled Task Scheduling Problem 一般耦合任务调度问题的二叉搜索方法
Pub Date : 2019-09-04 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3451871
M. Khatami, A. Salehipour
The coupled task scheduling problem aims to schedule a set of jobs, each with at least two tasks and there is an exact delay period between two consecutive tasks, on a set of machines to optimize a performance criterion. We study the problem of scheduling a set of coupled jobs to be processed on a single machine with the objective of minimizing the makespan, which is known to be strongly NP-hard. We obtain competitive lower bounds for the problem through different procedures, including solving 0-1 knapsack problems. We obtain an upper bound by applying a heuristic algorithm. We then propose a binary search heuristic algorithm for the coupled task scheduling problem. We perform extensive computational experiments and show that the proposed method is able to obtain quality solutions. The results also indicate that the proposed solution method outperforms the standard exact solver Gurobi.
耦合任务调度问题的目的是在一组机器上调度一组作业,每个作业至少有两个任务,并且两个连续任务之间存在精确的延迟时间,以优化性能标准。我们研究了以最小化完工时间为目标,在一台机器上调度一组耦合作业的问题,这被称为强np困难问题。通过求解0-1背包问题,得到了问题的竞争下界。我们用启发式算法求出了一个上界。然后,我们提出了一种二元搜索启发式算法来解决耦合任务调度问题。我们进行了大量的计算实验,并表明所提出的方法能够获得高质量的解。结果还表明,所提出的求解方法优于标准精确求解器Gurobi。
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引用次数: 0
An Empirical Analysis of Intra-Firm Product Substitutability in Fashion Retailing 服装零售业企业内部产品可替代性的实证分析
Pub Date : 2019-08-28 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3444467
Elcin Ergin, M. Gumus, N. Yang
This study offers an empirical investigation of inventory and sales dynamics in a large-scale retail network setting. We infer the impact of product shortages on sales in neighboring outlets using unique data from a large fast fashion retailing chain. Since the product shortages do not occur at the same time, we conduct a novel Difference-in-Differences (DiD) methodology to align the stock-out periods across the stores in the network. In addition, we stratify data based on the periods in which stock-out is observed and apply pairwise DiD analyses to validate the robustness of our results. Our analysis reveals that sales for a particular item at a focal store increases when that same item experiences stock-outs in neighboring stores, especially so for neighboring stores that are physically closer to the focal store. These findings suggest that there is substitutability across stores, and that this substitutability is the strongest in the period when the stock-out is observed for the first time, and decreases in the time since the stock-out and dissipates with physical distance. In order to assess the value of considering the impact of stock-outs on inventory allocation, we develop an optimization model and calibrate it by using parameters estimated via DiD analysis. The simulation analysis confirms that revenues markedly improve on average by 2.2% when neighboring stock-out information is taken into account for sales forecasting when optimizing inventory allocations. Finally, we conduct sensitivity analysis to evaluate how this effect changes with problem parameters such as product price, and inventory.
本研究提供了一个大规模零售网络设置库存和销售动态的实证调查。我们使用来自一家大型快时尚零售连锁店的独特数据来推断产品短缺对邻近门店销售的影响。由于产品短缺不会同时发生,我们采用了一种新颖的差分差分(DiD)方法来调整网络中各个商店的缺货期。此外,我们根据观察到的缺货期对数据进行分层,并应用两两DiD分析来验证我们结果的稳健性。我们的分析表明,当同一件商品在相邻商店缺货时,在重点商店的特定商品的销售额会增加,特别是对于离重点商店更近的相邻商店。这些结果表明,商品在不同的商店之间存在可替代性,且这种可替代性在第一次缺货时最强,在缺货后的时间内降低,并随着物理距离的增加而消散。为了评估考虑缺货对库存分配的影响的价值,我们建立了一个优化模型,并使用DiD分析估计的参数对其进行校准。仿真分析证实,在优化库存分配时,当考虑相邻的缺货信息进行销售预测时,收入平均显著提高2.2%。最后,我们进行了敏感性分析,以评估这种影响如何随问题参数(如产品价格和库存)而变化。
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引用次数: 3
An Algorithm to Create Test Data for Large-Scale Railway Network Revenue Management Models with Customer Choice 基于客户选择的大型铁路网收益管理模型测试数据生成算法
Pub Date : 2019-08-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3439270
Simon Hohberger, C. Schoen
Large-scale railway network revenue management models with customer choice behavior are not only a challenge from an optimization perspective, it is also complex and time-consuming to collect and set up test data for large networks. To promote research in this field, we present an algorithm that generates test data based on the schedules of railway companies, e.g., the set of itineraries and corresponding data, such as the resource consumption or product attribute values like travel time, number of transfers, etc. The generated data are also useful for other fields of research, such as crew scheduling or delay management. We show that the algorithm generates realistic test data for large-scale networks in only a few seconds. To promote research in the field of large-scale railway revenue management, we make the programming code (incl. a small schedule dataset) publicly available.
考虑客户选择行为的大型铁路网收益管理模型不仅从优化的角度来看是一个挑战,而且收集和设置大型铁路网的测试数据也很复杂和耗时。为了促进这一领域的研究,我们提出了一种基于铁路公司的时间表生成测试数据的算法,例如,路线集和相应的数据,如资源消耗或产品属性值,如旅行时间,换乘次数等。生成的数据对其他领域的研究也很有用,比如机组调度或延误管理。我们证明了该算法在几秒钟内就能生成大规模网络的真实测试数据。为了促进大规模铁路收入管理领域的研究,我们公开了编程代码(包括一个小的时间表数据集)。
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引用次数: 0
Optimal Priority-Based Allocation Mechanisms 基于优先级的最优分配机制
Pub Date : 2019-07-25 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3425348
Peng Shi
This paper develops a tractable methodology for designing an optimal priority system for assigning agents to heterogeneous items while accounting for agents’ choice behavior. The space of mechanisms being optimized includes deferred acceptance and top trading cycles as special cases. In contrast to previous literature, I treat the inputs to these mechanisms, namely the priority distribution of agents and quotas of items, as parameters to be optimized. The methodology is based on analyzing large market models of one-sided matching using techniques from revenue management and solving a certain assortment planning problem whose objective is social welfare. I apply the methodology to school choice and show that restricting choices may be beneficial to student welfare. Moreover, I compute optimized choice sets and priorities for elementary school choice in Boston. This paper was accepted by Gabriel Weintraub, revenue management and market analytics.
本文提出了一种易于处理的方法,用于在考虑代理选择行为的情况下,设计一个最优优先级系统来分配代理到异构项目。被优化的机制空间包括作为特例的延期接受和顶部交易周期。与之前的文献不同,我将这些机制的输入,即代理的优先分配和项目的配额,作为需要优化的参数。该方法是利用收益管理的技术分析单边匹配的大市场模型,解决以社会福利为目标的分类计划问题。我将这种方法应用于学校选择,并表明限制选择可能有利于学生的福利。此外,我计算了波士顿小学选择的优化选择集和优先级。本文被收益管理和市场分析专业的Gabriel Weintraub接受。
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引用次数: 17
The Traveling Salesman Problem With One Truck and Multiple Drones 一辆卡车和多架无人机的旅行推销员问题
Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3389306
K. Seifried
We develop a novel mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulation for a traveling salesman problem with a truck-drone team, consisting of one truck and multiple drones, that carries out a set of deliveries. Our model takes an approach different from other MIP formulations in the literature. Benchmarks show that it can compete with those as well as with purpose-built exact solution methods but has the advantage of being easily implementable with an off-the-shelf solver. Additionally, we present an even tighter formulation for a special case where the drone range is non-binding. We conduct several numerical experiments to explore the performance of the model and to gain insights into the problem with multiple drones.
我们开发了一种新的混合整数规划(MIP)公式,用于卡车-无人机团队的旅行推销员问题,该团队由一辆卡车和多架无人机组成,执行一组交付。我们的模型采用了一种不同于文献中其他MIP配方的方法。基准测试表明,它既可以与那些方法竞争,也可以与专门构建的精确解决方案方法竞争,但其优点是可以使用现成的求解器轻松实现。此外,我们提出了一个更严格的配方,其中无人机范围是非约束性的特殊情况。我们进行了几个数值实验来探索模型的性能,并深入了解多架无人机的问题。
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引用次数: 9
Is the Inf-convolution of Law-invariant Preferences Law-invariant? 不变偏好的非卷积是不变的吗?
Pub Date : 2019-04-13 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3371642
Peng Liu, Ruodu Wang, Linxiao Wei
Abstract We analyze the question of whether the inf-convolution of law-invariant risk functionals (preferences) is still law-invariant. In other words, we try to understand whether the representative economic agent (after risk redistribution) only cares about the distribution of the total risk, assuming all individual agents do so. Although the answer to the above question seems to be affirmative for many examples of commonly used risk functionals in the literature, the situation becomes delicate without assuming specific forms and properties of the individual functionals. We illustrate with examples the surprising fact that the answer to the main question is generally negative, even in an atomless probability space. Furthermore, we establish a few very weak conditions under which the answer becomes positive. These conditions do not require any specific forms or convexity of the risk functionals, and they are the richness of the underlying probability space, and monotonicity or continuity of one of the risk functionals. We provide several examples and counter-examples to discuss the subtlety of the question on law-invariance.
摘要本文分析了风险函数(偏好)的内卷积是否仍然是不变的问题。换句话说,我们试图理解代表性经济主体(在风险再分配之后)是否只关心总风险的分布,假设所有个体主体都这样做。虽然对于文献中常用的风险函数的许多例子,上述问题的答案似乎是肯定的,但如果不假设单个函数的特定形式和属性,情况就变得微妙了。我们用例子说明了一个令人惊讶的事实,即即使在无原子的概率空间中,对主要问题的答案通常也是否定的。此外,我们建立了几个非常弱的条件,在这些条件下答案为正。这些条件不要求风险泛函具有任何特定的形式或凸性,它们是潜在概率空间的丰富性,以及其中一个风险泛函的单调性或连续性。我们提供了几个例子和反例子来讨论定律不变性问题的微妙之处。
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