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Beyond IID: data-driven decision-making in heterogeneous environments
Omar Besbes, Will Ma, Omar Mouchtaki
How should one leverage historical data when past observations are not perfectly indicative of the future, e.g., due to the presence of unobserved confounders which one cannot "cor…
Dynamic Resource Allocation: Algorithmic Design Principles and Spectrum of Achievable Performances
Omar Besbes, Yash Kanoria, Akshit Kumar
Dynamic resource allocation problems are ubiquitous, arising in inventory management, order fulfillment, online advertising, and other applications. We initially focus on one of th…
On the Robustness of Second-Price Auctions in Prior-Independent Mechanism Design
Jerry Anunrojwong, Santiago R. Balseiro, Omar Besbes
Classical Bayesian mechanism design relies on the common prior assumption, but such prior is often not available in practice. We study the design of prior-independent mechanisms th…