This paper studies the optimal resource allocation in time-reservation systems. Customers arrive at a service facility and receive service in two steps; in the first step informa...
Ran Yang, Sandjai Bhulai, Rob van der Mei, Frank J...
A growing number of online service providers offer to store customers' photos, email, file system backups, and other digital assets. Currently, customers cannot make informed...
Mehul A. Shah, Mary Baker, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Ram S...
The Northern Region of the USDA Forest Service is using the Ecosystem Management Decision Support System (EMDS) to evaluate ecosystem sustainability for National Forest plan revis...
Mark Jensen, Keith Reynolds, Ute Langner, Melissa ...
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP) provide a standard framework for sequential decision making in stochastic environments. In this setting, an agent takes actio...
Operations research and management science are often confronted with sequential decision making problems with large state spaces. Standard methods that are used for solving such c...