Frontiers in Service Science: Data-Driven Revenue Management: The Interplay of Data, Model, and Decisions

N Chen, M Hu - Service Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Revenue management (RM) is the application of analytical methodologies and tools that
predict consumer behavior and optimize product availability and prices to maximize a firm's …

Corruption-robust exploration in episodic reinforcement learning

T Lykouris, M Simchowitz… - … on Learning Theory, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
We initiate the study of episodic reinforcement learning under adversarial corruptions in both
the rewards and the transition probabilities of the underlying system extending recent results …

Multi-channel autobidding with budget and ROI constraints

Y Deng, N Golrezaei, P Jaillet… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
In digital online advertising, advertisers procure ad impressions simultaneously on multiple
platforms, or so-called channels, such as Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, etc., each of …

Hedging the drift: Learning to optimize under nonstationarity

WC Cheung, D Simchi-Levi, R Zhu - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We introduce data-driven decision-making algorithms that achieve state-of-the-art dynamic
regret bounds for a collection of nonstationary stochastic bandit settings. These settings …

Online learning via offline greedy algorithms: Applications in market design and optimization

R Niazadeh, N Golrezaei, JR Wang, F Susan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Motivated by online decision-making in time-varying combinatorial environments, we study
the problem of transforming offline algorithms to their online counterparts. We focus on …

Fair assortment planning

Q Chen, N Golrezaei, F Susan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.07341, 2022 - arxiv.org
Many online platforms, ranging from online retail stores to social media platforms, employ
algorithms to optimize their offered assortment of items (eg, products and contents). These …

Online ad procurement in non-stationary autobidding worlds

JCN Liang, H Lu, B Zhou - Advances in Neural Information …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Today's online advertisers procure digital ad impressions through interacting with
autobidding platforms: advertisers convey high level procurement goals via setting levers …

Revenue maximization and learning in products ranking

N Chen, A Li, S Yang - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Online retailing has seen steady growth over the last decade. According to the Digital
Commerce (formerly Internet Retailer) analysis of the US Commerce Department's year-end …

Ranking hotel products by integrating online ratings from multiple platforms

X Wu, H Liao, EWT Ngai - Information & Management, 2024 - Elsevier
The proliferation of third-party platforms has led to the same product or service appearing
across multiple platforms. To facilitate consumers' purchase decisions, it is essential to rank …

Product Ranking in the Presence of Social Learning

C Maglaras, M Scarsini, D Shin… - Operations …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper studies product ranking mechanisms of a monopolistic online platform in the
presence of social learning. The products' quality is initially unknown, but consumers can …