A survey of contextual optimization methods for decision-making under uncertainty

U Sadana, A Chenreddy, E Delage, A Forel… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently there has been a surge of interest in operations research (OR) and the machine
learning (ML) community in combining prediction algorithms and optimization techniques to …

Online adaptive planning methods for intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Z Qiu, S Olberg, D den Hertog, A Ajdari… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Online adaptive radiation therapy aims at adapting a patient's treatment plan to their current
anatomy to account for inter-fraction variations before daily treatment delivery. As this …

Machine learning for data-driven last-mile delivery optimization

SS Özarık, P da Costa, AM Florio - Transportation Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
In the context of the Amazon Last-Mile Routing Research Challenge, this paper presents a
machine-learning framework for optimizing last-mile delivery routes. Contrary to most routing …

Data‐driven decision‐focused surrogate modeling

R Gupta, Q Zhang - AIChE Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce the concept of decision‐focused surrogate modeling for solving
computationally challenging nonlinear optimization problems in real‐time settings. The …

BO4IO: A Bayesian optimization approach to inverse optimization with uncertainty quantification

YA Lu, WS Hu, JA Paulson, Q Zhang - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
Data-driven inverse optimization (IO) aims to estimate unknown parameters in an
optimization model from observed decisions. The IO problem is commonly formulated as a …

Privacy-preserving personalized revenue management

Y Lei, S Miao, R Momot - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper examines how data-driven personalized decisions can be made while
preserving consumer privacy. Our setting is one in which the firm chooses a personalized …

Inverse mixed integer optimization: Polyhedral insights and trust region methods

M Bodur, TCY Chan, IY Zhu - INFORMS Journal on …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Inverse optimization—determining parameters of an optimization problem that render a
given solution optimal—has received increasing attention in recent years. Although …

Efficient learning of decision-making models: A penalty block coordinate descent algorithm for data-driven inverse optimization

R Gupta, Q Zhang - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Decision-making problems are commonly formulated as optimization problems, which are
then solved to make optimal decisions. In this work, we consider the inverse problem where …

A direct and analytical method for inverse problems under uncertainty in energy system design: combining inverse simulation and Polynomial Chaos theory

S Schwarz, D Carta, A Monti, A Benigni - Energy Informatics, 2024 - Springer
This article introduces and formalizes a novel stochastic method that combines inverse
simulation with the theory of generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) to solve and study …

Planning bike lanes with data: Ridership, congestion, and path selection

S Liu, A Siddiq, J Zhang - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Urban infrastructure is vital for sustainable cities. In recent years, municipal governments
have invested heavily in the expansion of bike lane networks to meet growing demand …