We consider a principal who periodically offers a fixed and costly nonmonetary reward to agents to incentivize them to invest effort over the long run. An agent’s output, as a function of his eff…
Operating under both supply-side and demand-side uncertainties, a mobile-promotion platform conducts advertising campaigns for individual advertisers. Campaigns arrive dynamically over time, which …
Problem definition: In the U.S. auto market, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) implements a stricter fuel economy standard in California than the federal standard implemented by the U.S. En…
Motivated by an application at a postacute healthcare provider, we study an infinite-horizon, stochastic optimization problem with a set of long-term capacity investment decisions and a sequence of…
We study the problem of managing queues in online food-ordering services where customers, who place orders online and pick up at the store, are offered a common quote time, that is, the promised pi…