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Volume 71, issue 6, 2023

Preface to Special Issue on Computational Advances in Short-Term Power System Operations pp. 1925-1927

Ross Baldick, Steven Low, Richard O’Neill, Daniel Ralph and Golbon Zakeri

Pricing Under Uncertainty in Multi-Interval Real-Time Markets pp. 1928-1942

Jehum Cho and Anthony Papavasiliou

On the Structure of Decision Diagram–Representable Mixed-Integer Programs with Application to Unit Commitment pp. 1943-1959

Hosseinali Salemi and Danial Davarnia

Unit Commitment Problem with Energy Storage Under Correlated Renewables Uncertainty pp. 1960-1977

Felipe Cordera, Rodrigo Moreno and Fernando Ordoñez

Optimization Formulations for Storage Devices with Disjoint Operating Modes pp. 1978-1996

Ross Baldick, Yonghong Chen and Bing Huang

Recent Developments in Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow: Overview of Challenge 1 in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition pp. 1997-2014

Ignacio Aravena, Daniel K. Molzahn, Shixuan Zhang, Cosmin G. Petra, Frank E. Curtis, Shenyinying Tu, Andreas Wächter, Ermin Wei, Elizabeth Wong, Amin Gholami, Kaizhao Sun, Xu Andy Sun, Stephen T. Elbert, Jesse T. Holzer and Arun Veeramany

A Surrogate-Based Asynchronous Decomposition Technique for Realistic Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow Problems pp. 2015-2030

Cosmin G. Petra and Ignacio Aravena

A Decomposition Algorithm with Fast Identification of Critical Contingencies for Large-Scale Security-Constrained AC-OPF pp. 2031-2044

Frank E. Curtis, Daniel K. Molzahn, Shenyinying Tu, Andreas Wächter, Ermin Wei and Elizabeth Wong

An ADMM-Based Distributed Optimization Method for Solving Security-Constrained Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow pp. 2045-2060

Amin Gholami, Kaizhao Sun, Shixuan Zhang and Xu Andy Sun

Asymptotic Optimality of Semi-Open-Loop Policies in Markov Decision Processes with Large Lead Times pp. 2061-2077

Xingyu Bai, Xin Chen, Menglong Li and Alexander Stolyar

Portfolio Selection, Periodic Evaluations and Risk Taking pp. 2078-2091

Alex S. L. Tse and Harry Zheng

Inventory Control and Learning for One-Warehouse Multistore System with Censored Demand pp. 2092-2110

Recep Yusuf Bekci, Mehmet Gümüş and Sentao Miao

Data-Driven Hospital Admission Control: A Learning Approach pp. 2111-2129

Mohammad Zhalechian, Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh, Cong Shi and Mark P. Van Oyen

Computation of Systemic Risk Measures: A Mixed-Integer Programming Approach pp. 2130-2145

Çağın Ararat and Nurtai Meimanjan

Technical Note—Data-Driven Profit Estimation Error in the Newsvendor Model pp. 2146-2157

Andrew F. Siegel and Michael R. Wagner

Customized Dynamic Pricing When Customers Develop a Habit or Satiation pp. 2158-2174

Wen Chen, Ying He and Saurabh Bansal

From Proper Scoring Rules to Max-Min Optimal Forecast Aggregation pp. 2175-2195

Eric Neyman and Tim Roughgarden

Revenue Management with Heterogeneous Resources: Unit Resource Capacities, Advance Bookings, and Itineraries over Time Intervals pp. 2196-2216

Paat Rusmevichientong, Mika Sumida, Huseyin Topaloglu and Yicheng Bai

Scheduling Advertising on Cable Television pp. 2217-2231

Sebastián Souyris, Sridhar Seshadri and Sriram Subramanian

Technical Note—Optimizing Risk-Balancing Return Under Discrete Choice Models pp. 2232-2244

Hongmin Li and Scott Webster

Optimal Subscription Planning for Digital Goods pp. 2245-2266

Saeed Alaei, Ali Makhdoumi and Azarakhsh Malekian

The Anchor-Robust Project Scheduling Problem pp. 2267-2290

Pascale Bendotti, Philippe Chrétienne, Pierre Fouilhoux and Adèle Pass-Lanneau

Finite-Sample Guarantees for Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization: Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality pp. 2291-2306

Rui Gao

On Finite Adaptability in Two-Stage Distributionally Robust Optimization pp. 2307-2327

Eojin Han, Chaithanya Bandi and Omid Nohadani

Information Retrieval Under Network Uncertainty: Robust Internet Ranking pp. 2328-2351

Anna Timonina-Farkas and Ralf W. Seifert

Enhanced Balancing of Bias-Variance Tradeoff in Stochastic Estimation: A Minimax Perspective pp. 2352-2373

Henry Lam, Xinyu Zhang and Xuhui Zhang

Technical Note—On the Strength of Relaxations of Weakly Coupled Stochastic Dynamic Programs pp. 2374-2389

David B. Brown and Jingwei Zhang

Technical Note—Average Cost Optimality in Partially Observable Lost-Sales Inventory Systems pp. 2390-2396

Xingyu Bai, Xin Chen and Alexander L. Stolyar

Volume 71, issue 5, 2023

Technical Note—Optimal Procurement in Remanufacturing Systems with Uncertain Used-Item Condition pp. 1441-1453

Emre Nadar, Mustafa Akan, Laurens Debo and Alan Scheller-Wolf

Technical Note—The Complexity of the Pricing Problem of the Set Partitioning Formulation of Vehicle Routing Problems pp. 1454-1457

Remy Spliet

Does the Prohibition of Trade-Through Hurt Liquidity Demanders? pp. 1458-1471

Ningyuan Chen, Pin Gao and Steven Kou

Exit Spirals in Coupled Networked Markets pp. 1472-1497

Christoph Aymanns, Co-Pierre Georg and Benjamin Golub

Joint Inventory and Scheduling Control in a Repair Facility pp. 1498-1514

Erhun Özkan and Geert-Jan van Houtum

Bayesian Inventory Control: Accelerated Demand Learning via Exploration Boosts pp. 1515-1529

Ya-Tang Chuang and Michael Jong Kim

A Nonparametric Algorithm for Optimal Stopping Based on Robust Optimization pp. 1530-1557

Bradley Sturt

Optimal Leveraged Portfolio Selection Under Quasi-Elastic Market Impact pp. 1558-1576

Chanaka Edirisinghe, Jingnan Chen and Jaehwan Jeong

Nonrobust Strong Knapsack Cuts for Capacitated Location Routing and Related Problems pp. 1577-1595

Pedro Henrique Liguori, A. Ridha Mahjoub, Guillaume Marques, Ruslan Sadykov and Eduardo Uchoa

Technical Note—Pricing in On-Demand and One-Way Vehicle-Sharing Networks pp. 1596-1609

Saif Benjaafar and Xiaobing Shen

Technical Note—Dynamic Mechanism Design with Capacity Constraint pp. 1610-1618

Wei He

Strategic Release of Information in Platforms: Entry, Competition, and Welfare pp. 1619-1635

Kostas Bimpikis and Giacomo Mantegazza

Adaptive Discretization in Online Reinforcement Learning pp. 1636-1652

Sean R. Sinclair, Siddhartha Banerjee and Christina Lee Yu

Robustness of Proactive Intensive Care Unit Transfer Policies pp. 1653-1688

Julien Grand-Clément, Carri W. Chan, Vineet Goyal and Gabriel Escobar

Sequential Fair Allocation: Achieving the Optimal Envy-Efficiency Trade-off Curve pp. 1689-1705

Sean R. Sinclair, Gauri Jain, Siddhartha Banerjee and Christina Lee Yu

The Price of Incentivizing Exploration: A Characterization via Thompson Sampling and Sample Complexity pp. 1706-1732

Mark Sellke and Aleksandrs Slivkins

Using Hospital Admission Predictions at Triage for Improving Patient Length of Stay in Emergency Departments pp. 1733-1755

Wanyi Chen, Nilay Tanik Argon, Tommy Bohrmann, Benjamin Linthicum, Kenneth Lopiano, Abhishek Mehrotra, Debbie Travers and Serhan Ziya

Inventory Sharing for Perishable Products: Application to Platelet Inventory Management in Hospital Blood Banks pp. 1756-1776

Can Zhang, Turgay Ayer, Chelsea C. White, Joy N. Bodeker and John D. Roback

Tight Guarantees for Static Threshold Policies in the Prophet Secretary Problem pp. 1777-1788

Nick Arnosti and Will Ma

Technical Note—Stochastic Scheduling with Abandonment: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Optimality of a Strict Priority Policy pp. 1789-1793

Gang Chen, Jean-Philippe Gayon and Pierre Lemaire

Technical Note—Dual Approach for Two-Stage Robust Nonlinear Optimization pp. 1794-1799

Frans J. C. T. de Ruiter, Jianzhe Zhen and Dick den Hertog

Algorithms and Complexities of Matching Variants in Covariate Balancing pp. 1800-1814

Dorit S. Hochbaum, Asaf Levin and Xu Rao

Gradient-Based Algorithms for Convex Discrete Optimization via Simulation pp. 1815-1834

Haixiang Zhang, Zeyu Zheng and Javad Lavaei

Nonconvex Piecewise Linear Functions: Advanced Formulations and Simple Modeling Tools pp. 1835-1856

Joey Huchette and Juan Pablo Vielma

Every Choice Function Is Pro-Con Rationalizable pp. 1857-1870

Serhat Dogan and Kemal Yildiz

Stability and Sample-Based Approximations of Composite Stochastic Optimization Problems pp. 1871-1888

Darinka Dentcheva, Yang Lin and Spiridon Penev

Efficient Resource Allocation Contracts to Reduce Adverse Events pp. 1889-1907

Yong Liang, Peng Sun, Runyu Tang and Chong Zhang

Maximum Entropy Distributions with Applications to Graph Simulation pp. 1908-1924

Paul Glasserman and Enrique Lelo de Larrea

Volume 71, issue 4, 2023

Approximate Submodularity in Network Design Problems pp. 1021-1039

Levi DeValve, Saša Pekeč and Yehua Wei

Dynamic Programming Principles for Mean-Field Controls with Learning pp. 1040-1054

Haotian Gu, Xin Guo, Xiaoli Wei and Renyuan Xu

Production Planning with Risk Hedging Under a Conditional Value at Risk Objective pp. 1055-1072

Liao Wang and David D. Yao

Store-Wide Shelf-Space Allocation with Ripple Effects Driving Traffic pp. 1073-1092

Tülay Flamand, Ahmed Ghoniem and Bacel Maddah

General Equilibrium in a Heterogeneous-Agent Incomplete-Market Economy with Many Consumption Goods and a Risk-Free Bond pp. 1093-1111

Bar Light

Technical Note—New Bounds for Cardinality-Constrained Assortment Optimization Under the Nested Logit Model pp. 1112-1119

Sumit Kunnumkal

Contextual Search in the Presence of Adversarial Corruptions pp. 1120-1135

Akshay Krishnamurthy, Thodoris Lykouris, Chara Podimata and Robert Schapire

Product Ranking in the Presence of Social Learning pp. 1136-1153

Costis Maglaras, Marco Scarsini, Dongwook Shin and Stefano Vaccari

Sequential Submodular Maximization and Applications to Ranking an Assortment of Products pp. 1154-1170

Arash Asadpour, Rad Niazadeh, Amin Saberi and Ali Shameli

Learning Product Rankings Robust to Fake Users pp. 1171-1196

Negin Golrezaei, Vahideh Manshadi, Jon Schneider and Shreyas Sekar

Joint Assortment Optimization and Customization Under a Mixture of Multinomial Logit Models: On the Value of Personalized Assortments pp. 1197-1215

Omar El Housni and Huseyin Topaloglu

The Stability of MNL-Based Demand Under Dynamic Customer Substitution and Its Algorithmic Implications pp. 1216-1249

Ali Aouad and Danny Segev

Technical Note—Bidding in Multidimensional Auctions When the Qualities of All Bidders Matter pp. 1250-1259

Panos L. Lorentziadis

Revenue Management of a Professional Services Firm with Quality Revelation pp. 1260-1276

Kalyan Talluri and Angelos Tsoukalas

Economic Behavior of Information Acquisition: Impact on Peer Grading in Massive Open Online Courses pp. 1277-1297

Onesun Steve Yoo and Dongyuan Zhan

Voxel-Based Solution Approaches to the Three-Dimensional Irregular Packing Problem pp. 1298-1317

Carlos Lamas-Fernandez, Julia A. Bennell and Antonio Martinez-Sykora

Accelerated MM Algorithms for Inference of Ranking Scores from Comparison Data pp. 1318-1342

Milan Vojnović, Se-Young Yun and Kaifang Zhou

Optimization-Based Scenario Reduction for Data-Driven Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization pp. 1343-1361

Dimitris Bertsimas and Nishanth Mundru

Robust Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning in the Presence of Outlier Customers pp. 1362-1386

Xi Chen and Yining Wang

Managing Queues with Different Resource Requirements pp. 1387-1413

Noa Zychlinski, Carri W. Chan and Jing Dong

Technical Note—An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to the Incremental Knapsack Problem pp. 1414-1433

Ali Aouad and Danny Segev

Technical Note—The Elliptical Potential Lemma for General Distributions with an Application to Linear Thompson Sampling pp. 1434-1439

Nima Hamidi and Mohsen Bayati

Volume 71, issue 3, 2023

Air Passenger Preferences: An International Comparison Affects Boarding Theory pp. 798-820

Eitan Bachmat, Sveinung Erland, Florian Jaehn and Simone Neumann

Who Is Next: Patient Prioritization Under Emergency Department Blocking pp. 821-842

Wenhao Li, Zhankun Sun and L. Jeff Hong

The Gatekeeper’s Dilemma: “When Should I Transfer This Customer?” pp. 843-859

Brett A. Hathaway, Evgeny Kagan and Maqbool Dada

Pooling Agents for Customer-Intensive Services pp. 860-875

Zhongbin Wang, Luyi Yang, Shiliang Cui, Sezer Ülkü and Yong-Pin Zhou

Need for Speed: The Impact of In-Process Delays on Customer Behavior in Online Retail pp. 876-894

Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno

Mismanaging Diagnostic Accuracy Under Congestion pp. 895-916

Mirko Kremer and Francis de Véricourt

Early Reservation for Follow-up Appointments in a Slotted-Service Queue pp. 917-938

Yichuan Ding, Diwakar Gupta and Xiaoxu Tang

To Batch or Not to Batch? Impact of Admission Batching on Emergency Department Boarding Time and Physician Productivity pp. 939-957

Arshya Feizi, Anita Carson, Jillian Berry Jaeker and William Evan Baker

Physician Discretion and Patient Pick-up: How Familiarity Encourages Multitasking in the Emergency Department pp. 958-978

Robert J. Niewoehner, Diwas Kc and Bradley Staats

Balancing Agent Retention and Waiting Time in Service Platforms pp. 979-1003

Andres Musalem, Marcelo Olivares and Daniel Yung

Nudging Patient Choice: Reducing No-Shows Using Waits Framing Messaging pp. 1004-1020

Jiayi Liu and Diwas Kc

Volume 71, issue 2, 2023

Risk-Based Robust Statistical Learning by Stochastic Difference-of-Convex Value-Function Optimization pp. 397-414

Junyi Liu and Jong-Shi Pang

On System-Wide Safety Staffing of Large-Scale Parallel Server Networks pp. 415-432

Hassan Hmedi, Ari Arapostathis and Guodong Pang

Generalized Exact Scheduling: A Minimal-Variance Distributed Deadline Scheduler pp. 433-470

Yorie Nakahira, Andres Ferragut and Adam Wierman

A Convex Reformulation and an Outer Approximation for a Large Class of Binary Quadratic Programs pp. 471-486

Borzou Rostami, Fausto Errico and Andrea Lodi

A Strongly Polynomial Algorithm for Linear Exchange Markets pp. 487-505

Jugal Garg and László A. Végh

Fast and Simple Solutions of Blotto Games pp. 506-516

Soheil Behnezhad, Sina Dehghani, Mahsa Derakhshan, Mohammedtaghi Hajiaghayi and Saeed Seddighin

A First-Order Approach to Accelerated Value Iteration pp. 517-535

Vineet Goyal and Julien Grand-Clément

Multiobjective Optimization for Politically Fair Districting: A Scalable Multilevel Approach pp. 536-562

Rahul Swamy, Douglas M. King and Sheldon H. Jacobson

Online Matching with Stochastic Rewards: Optimal Competitive Ratio via Path-Based Formulation pp. 563-580

Vineet Goyal and Rajan Udwani

Differential Privacy in Personalized Pricing with Nonparametric Demand Models pp. 581-602

Xi Chen, Sentao Miao and Yining Wang

Revenue Management Under a Mixture of Independent Demand and Multinomial Logit Models pp. 603-625

Yufeng Cao, Paat Rusmevichientong and Huseyin Topaloglu

On the Design of Public Debate in Social Networks pp. 626-648

Michel Grabisch, Antoine Mandel and Agnieszka Rusinowska

Distributionally Robust Losses for Latent Covariate Mixtures pp. 649-664

John Duchi, Tatsunori Hashimoto and Hongseok Namkoong

Optimal Pricing and Introduction Timing of Technology Upgrades in Subscription-Based Services pp. 665-687

Ian A. Kash, Peter B. Key and Spyros I. Zoumpoulis

Infinite-Dimensional Fisher Markets and Tractable Fair Division pp. 688-707

Yuan Gao and Christian Kroer

Stall Economy: The Value of Mobility in Retail on Wheels pp. 708-726

Junyu Cao and Wei Qi

Market Making and Incentives Design in the Presence of a Dark Pool: A Stackelberg Actor–Critic Approach pp. 727-749

Bastien Baldacci, Iuliia Manziuk, Thibaut Mastrolia and Mathieu Rosenbaum

Disruption and Rerouting in Supply Chain Networks pp. 750-767

John Birge, Agostino Capponi and Peng-Chu Chen

Online Passenger Flow Control in Metro Lines pp. 768-775

Jinpeng Liang, Guodong Lyu, Chung-Piaw Teo and Ziyou Gao

Beta and Coskewness Pricing: Perspective from Probability Weighting pp. 776-790

Yun Shi, Xiangyu Cui and Xun Yu Zhou

Volume 71, issue 1, 2023

The Value of Coordination in Multimarket Bidding of Grid Energy Storage pp. 1-22

Nils Löhndorf and David Wozabal

The Analytics of Bed Shortages: Coherent Metric, Prediction, and Optimization pp. 23-46

Jingui Xie, Gar Goei Loke, Melvyn Sim and Shao Wei Lam

Simulation-Based Prediction pp. 47-60

Eunji Lim and Peter W. Glynn

Robust Satisficing pp. 61-82

Daniel Zhuoyu Long, Melvyn Sim and Minglong Zhou

Dynamic Pricing and Matching for Two-Sided Queues pp. 83-100

Sushil Mahavir Varma, Pornpawee Bumpensanti, Siva Theja Maguluri and He Wang

The Best of Many Worlds: Dual Mirror Descent for Online Allocation Problems pp. 101-119

Santiago R. Balseiro, Haihao Lu and Vahab Mirrokni

Dual Bounds for Periodical Stochastic Programs pp. 120-128

Alexander Shapiro and Yi Cheng

Subset Selection with Shrinkage: Sparse Linear Modeling When the SNR Is Low pp. 129-147

Rahul Mazumder, Peter Radchenko and Antoine Dedieu

Offline Multi-Action Policy Learning: Generalization and Optimization pp. 148-183

Zhengyuan Zhou, Susan Athey and Stefan Wager

Forecasting COVID-19 and Analyzing the Effect of Government Interventions pp. 184-201

Michael Lingzhi Li, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Omar Skali Lami, Thomas A. Trikalinos, Nikolaos Trichakis and Dimitris Bertsimas

Lagrangian Inference for Ranking Problems pp. 202-223

Yue Liu, Ethan X. Fang and Junwei Lu

A Robust Spectral Clustering Algorithm for Sub-Gaussian Mixture Models with Outliers pp. 224-244

Prateek R. Srivastava, Purnamrita Sarkar and Grani A. Hanasusanto

Sequential Mechanisms with Ex Post Individual Rationality pp. 245-258

Itai Ashlagi, Constantinos Daskalakis and Nima Haghpanah

Partial Recovery in the Graph Alignment Problem pp. 259-272

Georgina Hall and Laurent Massoulié

A Branch-and-Repair Method for Three-Dimensional Bin Selection and Packing in E-Commerce pp. 273-288

Pirmin Fontaine and Stefan Minner

Policy Analytics in Public School Operations pp. 289-313

Dimitris Bertsimas and Arthur Delarue

Work More Tomorrow: Resolving Present Bias in Project Management pp. 314-340

Yun Shi, Nicholas G. Hall and Xiangyu Cui

An Approximate Analysis of Dynamic Pricing, Outsourcing, and Scheduling Policies for a Multiclass Make-to-Stock Queue in the Heavy Traffic Regime pp. 341-357

Barış Ata and Nasser Barjesteh

Achieving High Individual Service Levels Without Safety Stock? Optimal Rationing Policy of Pooled Resources pp. 358-377

Jiashuo Jiang, Shixin Wang and Jiawei Zhang

The Inventory Routing Problem Under Uncertainty pp. 378-395

Zheng Cui, Daniel Zhuoyu Long, Jin Qi and Lianmin Zhang