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Idle wage as a tool to regulate the relationship between ride-hailing platforms and drivers
Andrés Fielbaum, David Salas, Ruilin Zhang +1
Ride-hailing platforms typically classify drivers as either employees or independent contractors. These classifications tend to emphasize either wage certainty or flexibility, but…
Electric Vehicle Fleet and Charging Infrastructure Planning
Sushil Mahavir Varma, Francisco Castro, Siva Theja Maguluri
We study electric vehicle (EV) fleet and charging infrastructure planning in a spatial setting. With customer requests arriving continuously at rate throughout the day, we dete…
Power-of- Choices Load Balancing in the Sub-Halfin Whitt Regime
Sushil Mahavir Varma, Francisco Castro, Siva Theja Maguluri
We consider the load balancing system under Poisson arrivals, exponential services, and homogeneous servers. Upon arrival, a job is to be routed to one of the servers, where it is…
Randomized FIFO Mechanisms
Francisco Castro, Hongyao Ma, Hamid Nazerzadeh +1
We study the matching of jobs to workers in a queue, e.g. a ridesharing platform dispatching drivers to pick up riders at an airport. Under FIFO dispatching, the heterogeneity in t…
Mechanism Design under Approximate Incentive Compatibility
Santiago Balseiro, Omar Besbes, Francisco Castro
A fundamental assumption in classical mechanism design is that buyers are perfect optimizers. However, in practice, buyers may be limited by their computational capabilities or a l…
Near Optimal Control in Ride Hailing Platforms with Strategic Servers
Sushil Mahavir Varma, Francisco Castro, Siva Theja Maguluri
Motivated by applications in online marketplaces such as ride-hailing, we study how strategic servers impact the system performance. We consider a discrete-time process in which, h…