5 papers
Ballot Design and Electoral Outcomes: The Role of Candidate Order and Party Affiliation
Alessandro Arlotto, Alexandre Belloni, Fei Fang +1
We develop a causal inference model to study how designing ballots with and without party designations impacts electoral outcomes when partisan voters rely on party-order cues to i…
Logarithmic regret in the dynamic and stochastic knapsack problem with equal rewards
Alessandro Arlotto, Xinchang Xie
We study a dynamic and stochastic knapsack problem in which a decision maker is sequentially presented with items arriving according to a Bernoulli process over discrete time p…
Uniformly bounded regret in the multi-secretary problem
Alessandro Arlotto, Itai Gurvich
In the secretary problem of Cayley (1875) and Moser (1956), non-negative, independent, random variables with common distribution are sequentially presented to a decision maker…
A central limit theorem for costs in Bulinskaya's inventory management problem when deliveries face delays
Alessandro Arlotto, J. Michael Steele
It is common in inventory theory to consider policies that minimize the expected cost of ordering and holding goods or materials. Nevertheless, the realized cost is a random variab…
An adaptive -optimal policy for the online selection of a monotone subsequence from a random sample
Alessandro Arlotto, Yehua Wei, Xinchang Xie
Given a sequence of independent random variables with common continuous distribution, we propose a simple adaptive online policy that selects a monotone increasing subsequence.…