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Nonparametric Learning Algorithms for Joint Pricing and Inventory Control with Lost-Sales and Censored Demand

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 10 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2020

Boxiao (Beryl) Chen, Xiuli Chao and Cong Shi

University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and University of Miami - Department of Management

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Dynamic Joint Assortment and Pricing Optimization With Demand Learning

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 May 2018 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2019

Sentao Miao and Xiuli Chao

University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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Closing the Gap: A Learning Algorithm for the Lost-Sales Inventory System with Lead Times

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2018

Huanan Zhang, Xiuli Chao and Cong Shi

University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and University of Miami - Department of Management

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Asymptotically Optimal Lagrangian Policies for Multi-Warehouse Multi-Store Systems with Lost Sales

Operations Research

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2021

Sentao Miao, Stefanus Jasin and Xiuli Chao

University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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Coordinating Pricing and Inventory Replenishment with Nonparametric Demand Learning

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1294

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 25 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2019

Boxiao (Beryl) Chen, Xiuli Chao and Hyun-Soo Ahn

University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

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Asymptotic Optimality of Base-Stock Policies for Perishable Inventory Systems

Forthcoming, Management Science

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 09 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2022

Jinzhi Bu, Xiting Gong and Xiuli Chao

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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Online Personalized Assortment Optimization with High-Dimensional Customer Contextual Data

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2022

Sentao Miao and Xiuli Chao

University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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Adaptive Lagrangian Policies for Multi-Warehouse Multi-Store Inventory System with Lost Sales

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2024

Xiuli Chao, Stefanus Jasin and Sentao Miao

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Colorado at Boulder

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Dynamic Inventory Control with Stockout Substitution and Demand Learning

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 11 May 2018 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2019

Boxiao (Beryl) Chen and Xiuli Chao

University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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Data Based Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with Censored Demand and Limited Price Changes

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 09 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2020

Boxiao (Beryl) Chen, Xiuli Chao and Yining Wang

University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and University of Texas at Dallas

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Assortment and Inventory Planning under Dynamic (Stockout-based) Substitution in the Presence of Customer Returns: A Fluid Analysis

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 04 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2026

Alys Jiaxin Liang, Stefanus Jasin and Xiuli Chao

McGill University - McGill, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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Joint pricing and delayed empty relocation policies for ride-sourcing systems

Number of pages: 113 Posted: 09 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2023

Mojtaba Abdolmaleki, Xiuli Chao, Tara Radvand and Yafeng Yin

University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Joint Optimal Ordering and Weather Hedging Decisions: A Newsvendor Model

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Dec 2008

Frank (Youhua) Chen, Fei Gao and Xiuli Chao

City Univ. of Hong Kong - College of Business, Dept of Management Sciences, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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Perishable Inventory Problems: Convexity Results for Base-Stock Policies and Learning Algorithms Under Censored Demand

Forthcoming in Operations Research

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Dec 2017

Huanan Zhang, Xiuli Chao and Cong Shi

University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and University of Miami - Department of Management

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Near-Optimal Mixed (s, S) Policy for a Multi-Warehouse Multi-Store Inventory System with Lost Sales and Fixed Cost

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2024

Sentao Miao, Stefanus Jasin and Xiuli Chao

University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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Dispatch Optimization for Ambulance and Emergency Service Systems

HKUST Business School Research Paper No. 2025-229

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 Aug 2025

Xiuli Chao, Piao Hu and Shaohui Zheng

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

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Asymptotic Scaling of Optimal Cost and Asymptotic Optimality of Base-Stock Policy in Several Multi-Dimensional Inventory Systems

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2024

Jinzhi Bu, Xiting Gong and Xiuli Chao

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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A Generalized Fluid Model of Ride-Hailing Systems

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 24 May 2021

Zhengtian Xu, Yafeng Yin, Xiuli Chao, Hongtu Zhu and Jieping Ye

George Washington University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Texas at Houston - MD Anderson Cancer Center and DiDi Labs - DiDi Research Institute

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Understanding How Generation Flexibility and Renewable Energy Affect Power Market Competition

Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 15-77

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 04 May 2016

Majid Al-Gwaiz, Xiuli Chao and Owen Q. Wu

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business

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The Impact of Operational Decisions on the Design of Salesforce Incentives

Naval Research Logistics

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2014

Soroush Saghafian and Xiuli Chao

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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A Periodic Review Inventory System with S-Shaped Utility Function

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 31 Jul 2016

Xiaobo Zhao, Wei Geng, Xiuli Chao and Deng Gao

Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering

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Parametric Demand Learning with Limited Price Explorations in a Backlog Stochastic Inventory System

Chen, B. and Chao, X., 2019. Parametric demand learning with limited price explorations in a backlog stochastic inventory system. IISE Transactions, 51(6), pp.605-613.

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2020

Boxiao (Beryl) Chen and Xiuli Chao

University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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An Online Reinforcement Learning Approach to Charging and Order-Dispatching Optimization for An E-hailing Electric Vehicle Fleet

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Jun 2022

Pengyu Yan, Kaize Yu, Xiuli Chao and Zhibin Chen

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Division of Engineering and Computer Science, NYU Shanghai

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Optimizing ICU Antibiotic Usage with Antimicrobial Resistance Considerations

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 10 Dec 2025 Last Revised: 16 May 2026

Feier Qiu, Xiuli Chao, Na Geng and Jingui Xie

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and Technische Universität München (TUM) - TUM School of Management

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Learning Piecewise-Stationary Multi-Armed Bandit with One-Sided Feedback

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Mar 2026

Yingze Hou, Xiuli Chao and Jingui Xie

TUM School of Management,Technical University of Munich, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Technische Universität München (TUM) - TUM School of Management

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Optimal Reserve Prices in Name-Your-Own-Price Auctions with Bidding and Channel Options

Production and Operations Management, 18 (6), 653-671, 2009

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Jul 2012

Gangshu (George) Cai, Xiuli Chao and Jianbin Li

Santa Clara University, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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Sequential Hiring of Contingent Workers Through Learning-Based Optimization

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 12 Jul 2026

Chris Lee, Xiuli Chao and Izak Duenyas

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, College of Engineering, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Students, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

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Sequential Hiring of Contingent Workers Through Learning-Based Optimization

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 20 Jul 2026

Chris Lee, Xiuli Chao and Izak Duenyas

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, College of Engineering, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Students, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

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University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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