5 papers
Coordinating Spot and Contract Supply in Freight Marketplaces
Philip Kaminsky, Rachitesh Kumar, Roger Lederman
The freight industry is undergoing a digital revolution, with an ever-growing volume of transactions being facilitated by digital marketplaces. A core capability of these marketpla…
What is the Value of Censored Data? An Exact Analysis for the Data-driven Newsvendor
Rachitesh Kumar, Omar Mouchtaki
We study the offline data-driven newsvendor problem with censored demand data. In contrast to prior works where demand is fully observed, we consider the setting where demand is ce…
Online Generalized-mean Welfare Maximization: Achieving Near-Optimal Regret from Samples
Zongjun Yang, Rachitesh Kumar, Christian Kroer
We study online fair allocation of sequentially arriving items among agents with heterogeneous preferences, with the objective of maximizing generalized-mean welfare, defin…
Causal Predictive Optimization and Generation for Business AI
Liyang Zhao, Olurotimi Seton, Himadeep Reddy Reddivari +4
The sales process involves sales functions converting leads or opportunities to customers and selling more products to existing customers. The optimization of the sales process thu…
Prior-Independent Bidding Strategies for First-Price Auctions
Rachitesh Kumar, Omar Mouchtaki
First-price auctions are one of the most popular mechanisms for selling goods and services, with applications ranging from display advertising to timber sales. Unlike their close c…