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WSC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A simulation based optimization algorithm for slack reduction and workforce scheduling
In an assembly line with high labor proportion, the workforce planning and scheduling is a very complex problem. At the background of increasing labor costs, it is very important ...
Daniel Noack, Oliver Rose
NIPS
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Adapting to a Market Shock: Optimal Sequential Market-Making
We study the profit-maximization problem of a monopolistic market-maker who sets two-sided prices in an asset market. The sequential decision problem is hard to solve because the ...
Sanmay Das, Malik Magdon-Ismail
IAT
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Multi-Period Combinatorial Auction Mechanism for Distributed Resource Allocation and Scheduling
We consider the problem of resource allocation and scheduling where information and decisions are decentralized, and our goal is to propose a market mechanism that allows resource...
Hoong Chuin Lau, Shih-Fen Cheng, Thin Yin Leong, J...
MATES
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Impact of Competition on Quality of Service in Demand Responsive Transit
Abstract. Demand responsive transportation has the potential to provide efficient public door-to-door transport with a high quality. In currently implemented systems in the Netherl...
Ferdi Grootenboers, Mathijs de Weerdt, Mahdi Zarga...
WSC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
The optimizing-simulator: merging simulation and optimization using approximate dynamic programming
There has long been a competition between simulation and optimization in the modeling of problems in transportation and logistics, machine scheduling and similar highdimensional p...
Warren B. Powell