5 papers
Optimal Control with and Integral Cost Functionals
Madhu Dhiman, Veeraruna Kavitha, Nandyala Hemachandra
Many control problems are classically formulated using integral costs that capture the cumulative performance of a system. Peak or worst-case behavior is captured via supremum or $…
Punitive policies to combat misreporting in dynamic supply chains
Madhu Dhiman, Atul Maurya, Veeraruna Kavitha +1
Wholesale price contracts are known to be associated with double marginalization effects, which prevents supply chains from achieving their true market share. In a dynamic setting…
Constrained Average-Reward Intermittently Observable MDPs
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Madhu Dhiman, Veeraruna Kavitha
In Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with intermittent state information, decision-making becomes challenging due to periods of missing observations. Linear programming (LP) methods…
Optimal Control with cost: incorporating peak minimization
Madhu Dhiman, Veeraruna Kavitha, Nandyala Hemachandra
Inventory and queueing systems are often designed by controlling weighted combination of some time-averaged performance metrics (like cumulative holding, shortage, server-utilizati…
Integrative Modeling and Analysis of the Interplay Between Epidemic and News Propagation Processes
Madhu Dhiman, Chen Peng, Veeraruna Kavitha +1
The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed the role of online social networks (OSNs) in the spread of infectious diseases. The rise in severity of the epidemic augments the need for prope…