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作者：Honnappa, Harsha; Jain, Rahul
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Southern California; University of Southern California
摘要：Queueing networks models typically assume that the arrival process is exogenous and unaffected by admission control, scheduling policies, etc. In many situations, however, users choose the time of their arrival strategically, taking delay and other metrics into account. In this paper, we develop a framework to study such strategic arrivals into queueing networks. We study the population game wherein users strategically choose when to arrive at a parallel queueing network and upon arrival, whic...
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作者：Kim, Sang-Hyun
作者单位：Yale University
摘要：We examine the interplay between two important decisions that impact environmental performance in a production setting: inspections performed by a regulator and noncompliance disclosure by a production firm. To preempt the penalty that will be levied once a compliance violation is discovered in an inspection, the firm dynamically decides whether it should disclose a random occurrence of noncompliance. Anticipating this, the regulator determines inspection frequency and penalty amounts to minim...
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作者：Cominetti, Roberto; Correa, Jose; Larre, Omar
作者单位：Universidad de Chile
摘要：Flows over time provide a natural and convenient description for the dynamics of a continuous stream of particles traveling from a source to a sink in a network, allowing to track the progress of each infinitesimal particle along time. A basic model for the propagation of flow is the so-called fluid queue model in which the time to traverse an edge is composed of a flow-dependent waiting time in a queue at the entrance of the edge plus a constant travel time after leaving the queue. In a dynam...
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作者：Celik, Melih; Ergun, Ozlem; Keskinocak, Pinar
作者单位：Middle East Technical University; Northeastern University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Debris management is one of the most time consuming and complicated activities among post-disaster operations. Debris clearance is aimed at pushing the debris to the sides of the roads so that relief distribution and search-and-rescue operations can be maintained in a timely manner. Given the limited resources, uncertainty, and urgency during disaster response, efficient and effective planning of debris clearance to achieve connectivity between relief demand and supply is important. In this pa...
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作者：Jain, Aditya; Rudi, Nils; Wang, Tong
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); INSEAD Business School; National University of Singapore
摘要：Retailers facing uncertain demand can use observed sales to update demand estimates. However, such learning is limited by the amount of inventory carried; when demand exceeds inventory (i.e., when a stock-out event occurs), a retailer in general cannot observe actual demand. We propose using observations on the timing of sales occurrences in a Bayesian fashion to learn about demand, and we analyze this learning method for a multiperiod newsvendor setting. We find that, as previously shown with...
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作者：Xu, Ying; Scheller-Wolf, Alan; Sycara, Katia
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：We propose a static service differentiation policy for a single-server queueing system serving homogeneous customers. We show that by randomly assigning customers different service grades with different service rates, the average waiting time can be reduced without affecting the mean service time. Such differentiation introduces more service time variability, but it also creates information that enables the implementation of service rate-based scheduling, which mitigates the increased variance...
