5 papers
Strategic Buying Agents
Mingyang Fu, Ming Hu
Agentic AI is shifting online shopping from search toward delegated purchasing, where autonomous buying agents monitor markets and decide when to buy on a consumer's behalf. We stu…
A Solicit-Then-Suggest Model of Agentic Purchasing
Shengyu Cao, Ming Hu
E-commerce is shifting from search-based shopping to agentic purchasing. Rather than relying on keywords, AI shopping agents learn customer preferences through targeted multi-round…
Capacitated Spatiotemporal Matching
Mingyang Fu, Ming Hu
We study a spatiotemporal service matching problem in which demand, heterogeneous in location and time sensitivity/preference, is to be assigned to service stations. The planner se…
Constant-Factor Algorithms for Revenue Management with Consecutive Stays
Ming Hu, Tongwen Wu
We study network revenue management problems motivated by applications such as railway ticket sales and hotel room bookings. Requests, each requiring a resource for a consecutive s…
Diversity-Fair Online Selection
Ming Hu, Yanzhi Li, Tongwen Wu
Online selection problems frequently arise in applications such as crowdsourcing and employee recruitment. Existing research typically focuses on candidates with a single attribute…