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Optimal Replenishment Policies for Industrial Vending Machines
Karina M. Sindermann, Esma S. Gel, Nesim K. Erkip
Industrial Vending Machines (IVMs) automate the dispensing of a variety of supplies like safety equipment and tools at customer sites, providing 24/7 access while tracking inventor…
Accelerating Point-Based Value Iteration via Active Sampling of Belief Points and Gaussian Process Regression
Siqiong Zhou, Ashif S. Iquebal, Esma S. Gel
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are fundamental to decision-making under uncertainty. We introduce a novel scalable approach to accelerate upper bound estim…
Optimization Modeling for Pandemic Vaccine Supply Chain Management: A Review and Future Research Opportunities
Shibshankar Dey, Ali Kaan Kurbanzade, Esma S. Gel +2
During various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries implemented diverse vaccine management approaches, influenced by variations in infrastructure and socio-economic condition…