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Volume 73, issue 3, 2025

Heuristic ( S, T ) Solutions via an FPTAS for a One-Warehouse Multiretailer Problem pp. 1151-1164

Waleed Najy, Ali Diabat and Khaled Elbassioni

Optimizing the Path Towards Plastic-Free Oceans pp. 1165-1183

Dick den Hertog, Jean Pauphilet, Yannick Pham, Bruno Sainte-Rose and Baizhi Song

DeLuxing: Deep Lagrangian Underestimate Fixing for Column-Generation-Based Exact Methods pp. 1184-1207

Yu Yang

Risk Budgeting Allocation for Dynamic Risk Measures pp. 1208-1229

Silvana M. Pesenti, Sebastian Jaimungal, Yuri F. Saporito and Rodrigo S. Targino

Trading with Concave Price Impact and Impact Decay—Theory and Evidence pp. 1230-1247

Natascha Hey, Iacopo Mastromatteo, Johannes Muhle-Karbe and Kevin Webster

Technical Note—Leveraging the Degree of Dynamic Substitution in Assortment and Inventory Planning pp. 1248-1259

Jingwei Zhang, Will Ma and Huseyin Topaloglu

Technical Note—Revenue Management with Calendar-Aware and Dependent Demands: Asymptotically Tight Fluid Approximations pp. 1260-1272

Weiyuan Li, Paat Rusmevichientong and Huseyin Topaloglu

Dynamic Resource Allocation: Algorithmic Design Principles and Spectrum of Achievable Performances pp. 1273-1288

Omar Besbes, Yash Kanoria and Akshit Kumar

Personalized Pricing and Assortment Optimization Under Consumer Choice Models with Local Network Effects pp. 1289-1306

Tong Xie and Zizhuo Wang

Revenue Maximization Under Unknown Private Values with Nonobligatory Inspection pp. 1307-1319

Saeed Alaei, Ali Makhdoumi and Azarakhsh Malekian

Jointly Modeling and Clustering Tensors in High Dimensions pp. 1320-1335

Biao Cai, Jingfei Zhang and Will Wei Sun

Technical Note—An Unexpected Stochastic Dominance: Pareto Distributions, Dependence, and Diversification pp. 1336-1344

Yuyu Chen, Paul Embrechts and Ruodu Wang

Data-Driven Minimax Optimization with Expectation Constraints pp. 1345-1365

Shuoguang Yang, Xudong Li and Guanghui Lan

Column-Randomized Linear Programs: Performance Guarantees and Applications pp. 1366-1383

Yi-Chun Akchen and Velibor V. Mišić

An Exact Solution to Wordle pp. 1384-1394

Dimitris Bertsimas and Alex Paskov

Data-Driven Compositional Optimization in Misspecified Regimes pp. 1395-1411

Shuoguang Yang, Ethan X. Fang and Uday V. Shanbhag

When Does the Gittins Policy Have Asymptotically Optimal Response Time Tail in the M/G/1? pp. 1412-1429

Ziv Scully and Lucas van Kreveld

Stochastic Optimization Approaches for an Operating Room and Anesthesiologist Scheduling Problem pp. 1430-1458

Man Yiu Tsang, Karmel S. Shehadeh, Frank E. Curtis, Beth R. Hochman and Tricia E. Brentjens

Robust CARA Optimization pp. 1459-1478

Li Chen and Melvyn Sim

Optimal Diagonal Preconditioning pp. 1479-1495

Zhaonan Qu, Wenzhi Gao, Oliver Hinder, Yinyu Ye and Zhengyuan Zhou

Designing Service Menus for Bipartite Queueing Systems pp. 1496-1534

René Caldentey, Lisa Aoki Hillas and Varun Gupta

Quantile Optimization via Multiple-Timescale Local Search for Black-Box Functions pp. 1535-1557

Jiaqiao Hu, Meichen Song and Michael C. Fu

Branch-and-Price for Prescriptive Contagion Analytics pp. 1558-1580

Alexandre Jacquillat, Michael Lingzhi Li, Martin Ramé and Kai Wang

Slowly Varying Regression Under Sparsity pp. 1581-1597

Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis, Michael Lingzhi Li and Omar Skali Lami

Assigning and Scheduling Generalized Malleable Jobs Under Subadditive or Submodular Processing Speeds pp. 1598-1614

Dimitris Fotakis, Jannik Matuschke and Orestis Papadigenopoulos

Adaptive Lagrangian Policies for a Multiwarehouse, Multistore Inventory System with Lost Sales pp. 1615-1636

Xiuli Chao, Stefanus Jasin and Sentao Miao

Matching Impatient and Heterogeneous Demand and Supply pp. 1637-1658

Angelos Aveklouris, Levi DeValve, Maximiliano Stock and Amy Ward

On the Robustness of Second-Price Auctions in Prior-Independent Mechanism Design pp. 1659-1674

Jerry Anunrojwong, Santiago R. Balseiro and Omar Besbes

Adaptive, Doubly Optimal No-Regret Learning in Strongly Monotone and Exp-Concave Games with Gradient Feedback pp. 1675-1702

Michael Jordan, Tianyi Lin and Zhengyuan Zhou

Tight Guarantees for Multiunit Prophet Inequalities and Online Stochastic Knapsack pp. 1703-1721

Jiashuo Jiang, Will Ma and Jiawei Zhang

Volume 73, issue 2, 2025

Search for an Immobile Hider on a Binary Tree with Unreliable Locational Information pp. 583-594

Steve Alpern and Thomas Lidbetter

Robust Workforce Management with Crowdsourced Delivery pp. 595-612

Chun Cheng, Melvyn Sim and Yue Zhao

Budget-Driven Multiperiod Hub Location: A Robust Time-Series Approach pp. 613-631

Jie Hu, Zhi Chen and Shuming Wang

Monetizing Positive Externalities to Mitigate the Infrastructure Underinvestment Problem pp. 632-647

Hao Bai, Alain Bensoussan, Gordon Briest and Benoît Chevalier-Roignant

Generalization Guarantees for Multi-Item Profit Maximization: Pricing, Auctions, and Randomized Mechanisms pp. 648-663

Maria-Florina Balcan, Tuomas Sandholm and Ellen Vitercik

Asymptotically Tight Bounds on the Optimal Pricing Strategy with Patient Customers pp. 664-671

Shuaijie Qian, Xizhi Su and Chao Zhou

Ordinary and Prophet Planning Under Uncertainty in Bernoulli Congestion Games pp. 672-688

Roberto Cominetti, Marco Scarsini, Marc Schröder and Nicolas E. Stier-Moses

On (Random-Order) Online Contention Resolution Schemes for the Matching Polytope of (Bipartite) Graphs pp. 689-703

Calum MacRury, Will Ma and Nathaniel Grammel

Efficient Algorithms for a Class of Stochastic Hidden Convex Optimization and Its Applications in Network Revenue Management pp. 704-719

Xin Chen, Niao He, Yifan Hu and Zikun Ye

Structural Estimation of Markov Decision Processes in High-Dimensional State Space with Finite-Time Guarantees pp. 720-737

Siliang Zeng, Mingyi Hong and Alfredo Garcia

EFX: A Simpler Approach and an (Almost) Optimal Guarantee via Rainbow Cycle Number pp. 738-751

Hannaneh Akrami, Noga Alon, Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, Jugal Garg, Kurt Mehlhorn and Ruta Mehta

Political Districting to Minimize County Splits pp. 752-774

Maral Shahmizad and Austin Buchanan

Temporal Fairness in Learning and Earning: Price Protection Guarantee and Phase Transitions pp. 775-797

Qing Feng, Ruihao Zhu and Stefanus Jasin

Stochastic Online Fisher Markets: Static Pricing Limits and Adaptive Enhancements pp. 798-818

Devansh Jalota and Yinyu Ye

Technical Note—On Adaptivity in Nonstationary Stochastic Optimization with Bandit Feedback pp. 819-828

Yining Wang

Technical Note—A Data-Driven Approach to Beating SAA Out of Sample pp. 829-841

Jun-ya Gotoh, Michael Jong Kim and Andrew E. B. Lim

Improved Decision Rule Approximations for Multistage Robust Optimization via Copositive Programming pp. 842-861

Guanglin Xu and Grani A. Hanasusanto

A Unified Theory of Robust and Distributionally Robust Optimization via the Primal-Worst-Equals-Dual-Best Principle pp. 862-878

Jianzhe Zhen, Daniel Kuhn and Wolfram Wiesemann

Multivariate Almost Stochastic Dominance: Transfer Characterizations and Sufficient Conditions Under Dependence Uncertainty pp. 879-893

Alfred Müller, Marco Scarsini, Ilia Tsetlin and Robert L. Winkler

Learning and Optimization with Seasonal Patterns pp. 894-909

Ningyuan Chen, Chun Wang and Longlin Wang

A Doubly Stochastic Simulator with Applications in Arrivals Modeling and Simulation pp. 910-926

Yufeng Zheng, Zeyu Zheng and Tingyu Zhu

Stochastic Localization Methods for Convex Discrete Optimization via Simulation pp. 927-948

Haixiang Zhang, Zeyu Zheng and Javad Lavaei

Customer Scheduling in Large Service Systems Under Model Uncertainty pp. 949-968

Shiwei Chai, Xu Sun and Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi

Distributionally Robust Optimization Under Distorted Expectations pp. 969-985

Jun Cai, Jonathan Yu-Meng Li and Tiantian Mao

Technical Note—Improved Sample-Complexity Bounds in Stochastic Optimization pp. 986-994

Alok Baveja, Amit Chavan, Andrei Nikiforov, Aravind Srinivasan and Pan Xu

Online Matching Frameworks Under Stochastic Rewards, Product Ranking, and Unknown Patience pp. 995-1010

Brian Brubach, Nathaniel Grammel, Will Ma and Aravind Srinivasan

Mixed-Integer Optimization with Constraint Learning pp. 1011-1028

Donato Maragno, Holly Wiberg, Dimitris Bertsimas, Ş. İlker Birbil, Dick den Hertog and Adejuyigbe O. Fajemisin

Fluid Policies, Reoptimization, and Performance Guarantees in Dynamic Resource Allocation pp. 1029-1045

David B. Brown and Jingwei Zhang

Inverse Optimization: Theory and Applications pp. 1046-1074

Timothy C. Y. Chan, Rafid Mahmood and Ian Yihang Zhu

Linear Classifiers Under Infinite Imbalance pp. 1075-1101

Paul Glasserman and Mike Li

Computing Bayes–Nash Equilibrium Strategies in Auction Games via Simultaneous Online Dual Averaging pp. 1102-1127

Martin Bichler, Max Fichtl and Matthias Oberlechner

Recovering Dantzig–Wolfe Bounds by Cutting Planes pp. 1128-1142

Rui Chen, Oktay Günlük and Andrea Lodi

Technical Note—On the Convergence Rate of Stochastic Approximation for Gradient-Based Stochastic Optimization pp. 1143-1150

Jiaqiao Hu and Michael C. Fu

Volume 73, issue 1, 2025

Error Propagation in Asymptotic Analysis of the Data-Driven ( s, S ) Inventory Policy pp. 1-21

Xun Zhang, Zhi-Sheng Ye and William B. Haskell

Application-Driven Learning: A Closed-Loop Prediction and Optimization Approach Applied to Dynamic Reserves and Demand Forecasting pp. 22-39

Joaquim Dias Garcia, Alexandre Street, Tito Homem- de-Mello and Francisco D. Muñoz

Preventing Price-Mediated Contagion Due to Fire Sales Externalities: Strategic Foundations of Macroprudential Regulation pp. 40-60

Yann Braouezec and Keyvan Kiani

Improving the Security of United States Elections with Robust Optimization pp. 61-85

Braden L. Crimmins, J. Alex Halderman and Bradley Sturt

Drone-Delivery Network for Opioid Overdose: Nonlinear Integer Queueing-Optimization Models and Methods pp. 86-108

Miguel Lejeune and Wenbo Ma

Online Learning for Constrained Assortment Optimization Under Markov Chain Choice Model pp. 109-138

Shukai Li, Qi Luo, Zhiyuan Huang and Cong Shi

The Role of Lookahead and Approximate Policy Evaluation in Reinforcement Learning with Linear Value Function Approximation pp. 139-156

Anna Winnicki, Joseph Lubars, Michael Livesay and R. Srikant

Price Interpretability of Prediction Markets: A Convergence Analysis pp. 157-177

Jianjun Gao, Zizhuo Wang, Weiping Wu and Dian Yu

Pricing Optimal Outcomes in Coupled and Non-Convex Markets: Theory and Applications to Electricity Markets pp. 178-193

Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Martin Bichler and Johannes Knörr

Learning to Persuade on the Fly: Robustness Against Ignorance pp. 194-208

You Zu, Krishnamurthy Iyer and Haifeng Xu

Optimal No-Regret Learning in Repeated First-Price Auctions pp. 209-238

Yanjun Han, Tsachy Weissman and Zhengyuan Zhou

Technical Note—A New Rate-Optimal Sampling Allocation for Linear Belief Models pp. 239-250

Jiaqi Zhou and Ilya O. Ryzhov

Technical Note—Conic Mixed-Binary Sets: Convex Hull Characterizations and Applications pp. 251-269

Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Simge Küçükyavuz, Dabeen Lee and Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh

Technical Note—A Stationary Infinite-Horizon Supply Contract Under Asymmetric Inventory Information pp. 270-277

Alain Bensoussan, Suresh Sethi and Shouqiang Wang

Technical Note—Online Matching with Bayesian Rewards pp. 278-289

David Simchi-Levi, Rui Sun and Xinshang Wang

Behavior-Aware Queueing: The Finite-Buffer Setting with Many Strategic Servers pp. 290-310

Yueyang Zhong, Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan and Amy R. Ward

Projective Hedging Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Programming, Supporting Distributed and Asynchronous Implementation pp. 311-324

Jonathan Eckstein, Jean-Paul Watson and David L. Woodruff

Achieving Efficiency in Black-Box Simulation of Distribution Tails with Self-Structuring Importance Samplers pp. 325-343

Anand Deo and Karthyek Murthy

Scores for Multivariate Distributions and Level Sets pp. 344-362

Xiaochun Meng, James W. Taylor, Souhaib Ben Taieb and Siran Li

Expanding Service Capabilities Through an On-Demand Workforce pp. 363-384

Xu Sun and Weiliang Liu

Gaussian Process-Based Random Search for Continuous Optimization via Simulation pp. 385-407

Xiuxian Wang, L. Jeff Hong, Zhibin Jiang and Haihui Shen

Competitive Algorithms for the Online Minimum Peak Job Scheduling pp. 408-423

Célia Escribe, Michael Hu and Retsef Levi

Contextual Inverse Optimization: Offline and Online Learning pp. 424-443

Omar Besbes, Yuri Fonseca and Ilan Lobel

Strategic Pricing in Volatile Markets pp. 444-460

Sebastian Gryglewicz and Aaron Kolb

The When and How of Delegated Search pp. 461-482

Saša Zorc, Ilia Tsetlin, Sameer Hasija and Stephen E. Chick

Optimal Routing to Parallel Servers in Heavy Traffic pp. 483-509

Heng-Qing Ye

Optimal Routing Under Demand Surges: The Value of Future Arrival Rates pp. 510-542

Jinsheng Chen, Jing Dong and Pengyi Shi

Shape-Constrained Regression Using Sum of Squares Polynomials pp. 543-559

Mihaela Curmei and Georgina Hall

On the Optimality of Greedy Policies in Dynamic Matching pp. 560-582

Süleyman Kerimov, Itai Ashlagi and Itai Gurvich