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To Start Up a Start-UpEmbedding Strategic Demand Development in Operational On-Demand Fulfillment via Reinforcement Learning with Information Shaping
Xinwei Chen, Marlin W. Ulmer, Barrett W. Thomas
The last few years have witnessed rapid growth in the on-demand delivery market, with many start-ups entering the field. However, not all of these start-ups have succeeded due to v…
Same-Day Delivery with Fairness
Xinwei Chen, Tong Wang, Barrett W. Thomas +1
The demand for same-day delivery (SDD) has increased rapidly in the last few years and has particularly boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fast growth is not without its chal…
Deep Q-Learning for Same-Day Delivery with Vehicles and Drones
Xinwei Chen, Marlin W. Ulmer, Barrett W. Thomas
In this paper, we consider same-day delivery with vehicles and drones. Customers make delivery requests over the course of the day, and the dispatcher dynamically dispatches vehicl…