Cong Shi

University of Miami - Department of Management

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1.

More Bang for Your Buck: Effective Kol Marketing Campaign in Emerging Short-Video Markets

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Aug 2020
Shenzhen University - Department of Marketing, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, York University, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Miami - Department of Management
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Social Media; Key Opinion Leaders; Advertising Campaigns; Multi-Nomial Logit Model; Selection; Scheduling

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Online Learning and Pricing for Service Systems with Reusable Resources

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2022
Huiwen Jia, Cong Shi and Siqian Shen
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Miami - Department of Management and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
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learning, pricing, reusable resources, service systems, multi-armed bandit, coupling analysis

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Offline Feature-Based Pricing under Censored Demand: A Causal Inference Approach

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2023
University of Miami Herbert Business School, George Washington University - School of Business, Duke University - Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and University of Miami - Department of Management
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offline learning, feature-based pricing, demand censoring, causal inference, regret analysis

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Process Flexibility for Multi-Period Production Systems

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 05 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2022
Cong Shi, Yehua Wei and Yuan Zhong
University of Miami - Department of Management, Decision Sciences Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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process flexibility, flexible production, multi-period, capacity planning, chaining condition

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Marrying Stochastic Gradient Descent with Bandits: Learning Algorithms for Inventory Systems with Fixed Costs

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2020
Hao Yuan, Qi Luo and Cong Shi
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Iowa - Department of Business Analytics and University of Miami - Department of Management
Downloads 935 (53,271)
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inventory, fixed costs, censored demand, nonparametric, learning algorithms, regret analysis

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Joint Pricing and Inventory Management with Strategic Customers

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 28 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2022
Yiwei Chen and Cong Shi
Temple University - Fox School of Business and Management and University of Miami - Department of Management
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joint pricing and inventory control, strategic customers, optimal policy, mechanism design

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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 Chen, Xiuli Chao and Cong Shi
University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Business Administration, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and University of Miami - Department of Management
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algorithm, joint pricing and inventory control, lost-sales, censored demand, nonparametric

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Network Revenue Management with Online Inverse Batch Gradient Descent Method

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 26 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2022
Yiwei Chen and Cong Shi
Temple University - Fox School of Business and Management and University of Miami - Department of Management
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revenue management, network, dynamic pricing, nonparametric, online learning, stochastic gradient descent, asymptotic optimality

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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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inventory, lost-sales, lead time, base-stock policy, censored demand, nonparametric, learning algorithms, regret analysis

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Tailored Base-Surge Policies in Dual-Sourcing Inventory Systems with Demand Learning

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2024
Boxiao Chen and Cong Shi
University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Business Administration and University of Miami - Department of Management
Downloads 588 (97,986)
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inventory, dual-sourcing, censored demand, nonparametric, learning, regret analysis

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Online Learning for Constrained Assortment Optimization under Markov Chain Choice Model

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2024
Shukai Li, Qi Luo, Zhiyuan Huang and Cong Shi
Northwestern University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, University of Iowa - Department of Business Analytics, Tongji University - School of Economics and Management and University of Miami - Department of Management
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online learning, assortment planning, Markov chain choice model, capacity, regret analysis

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Partner with a Third-Party Delivery Service or Not? -- a Prediction-and-Decision Tool for Restaurants Facing Takeout Demand Surges During a Pandemic

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2021
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) and University of Miami - Department of Management
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on-demand grocery or food delivery, demand uncertainty, Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model, auto-regressive-moving-average (ARMA), stochastic integer programming

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Integrating Empirical Estimation and Assortment Personalization for E-Commerce: A Consider-Then-Choose Model

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2019
Renmin University of China - School of Business, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and University of Miami - Department of Management
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e-commerce, consider-then-choose, consideration set, assortment planning

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Online Learning and Pricing for Multiple Products with Reference Price Effects

Number of pages: 1 Posted: 08 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2024
Sheng Ji, Cong Shi and Yi Yang
School of Management, Zhejiang University, University of Miami - Department of Management and School of Management, Zhejiang University
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online learning, pricing, reference price effect, multiple products, revenue management, multi-armed bandit

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Service Level Constrained Inventory Systems

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2019
Yuchen Jiang, Cong Shi and Siqian Shen
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Miami - Department of Management and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
Downloads 370 (170,369)
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inventory; service level; ready rate; fill rate; remanufacturing; approximation algorithms

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LEGO: Optimal Online Learning under Sequential Price Competition

University of Miami Business School Research Paper No. 4803002
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 30 May 2024
Shukai Li, Cong Shi and Sanjay Mehrotra
Northwestern University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, University of Miami - Department of Management and Northwestern University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
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sequential competition, dynamic pricing, demand learning, Nash equilibrium, regret analysis

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Play It Safe or Leave the Comfort Zone? Optimal Content Strategies for Social Media Influencers on Streaming Video Platforms

Ling Jiang, Xingyu Chen, Sentao Miao, and Cong Shi (2023) “Play It Safe or Leave the Comfort Zone? Optimal Content Strategies for Social Media Influencers on Streaming Video Platforms”, Decision Support Systems, Accepted.
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2023
York University, Shenzhen University - Department of Marketing, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Miami - Department of Management
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social media influencer, content strategy, Markov decision process, matrix completion, optimal policy, streaming video

18.

Online Advance Scheduling with Overtime: A Primal-Dual Approach

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 05 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 26 May 2019
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, University of Miami - Department of Management and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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advance scheduling; online resource allocation; online algorithms; competitive analysis

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Online Learning for Dual Index Policies in Dual Sourcing Systems

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 29 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2023
Jingwen Tang, Boxiao Chen and Cong Shi
University of Miami Herbert Business School, University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Business Administration and University of Miami - Department of Management
Downloads 295 (216,845)
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inventory, dual sourcing, dual index policy, learning, bandits, sample average approximation

20.

Online Resource Allocation with Personalized Learning

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 10 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2022
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, University of Miami - Department of Management and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Downloads 268 (238,592)
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online learning; online resource allocation; contextual bandit; regret analysis; advance scheduling; personalized healthcare services

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Optimal Learning Algorithms for Stochastic Inventory Systems with Random Capacities

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2020
Weidong Chen, Cong Shi and Izak Duenyas
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, College of Engineering, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Students, University of Miami - Department of Management and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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inventory, random capacity, online learning algorithms, regret analysis

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Strategic Capacity Planning Problems in Revenue Sharing Joint Ventures

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2019
MIT Sloan School of Management - Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Miami - Department of Management and IBM Corporation - Thomas J. Watson Research Center
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capacity planning; joint venture; revenue sharing; game theory; efficiency; coordination

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Online Learning and Pricing for Network Revenue Management with Reusable Resources

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2022
Huiwen Jia, Cong Shi and Siqian Shen
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Miami - Department of Management and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
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online learning; pricing; bandits; network revenue management; queueing network; mixing times

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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
Downloads 231 (276,528)
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inventory, perishable products, base-stock policy, censored demand, learning algorithms

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Data-driven Hospital Admission Control: A Learning Approach

Mohammad Zhalechian, Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh, Cong Shi, Mark P. Van Oyen (2023) Data-Driven Hospital Admission Control: A Learning Approach. Operations Research 0(0).
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 18 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2023
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, University of Miami - Department of Management and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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online learning, contextual bandit, regret analysis, readmission, data-driven admission control

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An Online Mirror Descent Learning Algorithm for Multiproduct Inventory Systems

University of Miami Business School Research Paper No. 4806687
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 Apr 2024
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, University of Miami - Department of Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - School of Information Management and Engineering and Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami
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inventory control, multiproduct, censored demand, learning algorithms, online mirror descent

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Contextual Learning with Online Convex Optimization: Theory and Application to Medical Decision-Making

Management Science, to appear.
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 31 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2023
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, University of Miami - Department of Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Department of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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online learning algorithms, regret analysis, contextual multi-armed bandit, stochastic sub-gradient descent, online convex optimization, personalized medicine, medical decision-making

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Multiproduct Inventory Systems with Upgrading: Replenishment, Allocation, and Online Learning

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Apr 2024
University of Miami Herbert Business School, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Miami - Department of Management and University of Miami - Department of Management
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multiproduct, ordering, allocation, general upgrading, online learning, censored demand

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Multi-armed Bandit with Sub-exponential Rewards

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 21 Sep 2021
Huiwen Jia, Cong Shi and Siqian Shen
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Miami - Department of Management and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
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multi-armed bandit, unbounded reward, sub-exponential reward, upper confidence bound

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It is All About the Demand CDF: Data-Driven Periodic Review Inventory Control

University of Miami Business School Research Paper No. 4860515
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 17 Jun 2024
Xu Ganggang and Cong Shi
Management Science, Herbert Business School, University of Miami and University of Miami - Department of Management
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inventory control, data-driven, dynamic programming, statistical models, convergence rate, demand CDF

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Production Planning Problems with Joint Service-Level Guarantee: A Computational Study

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Nov 2022
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and University of Miami - Department of Management
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production planning, stochastic programming, mixed integer linear programming, joint service-level constraint, sample average approximation

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Online Learning for Inventory Control Problems under Random Yield

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Dec 2024
Pennsylvania State University - Penn State, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, Duke University - Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and University of Miami - Department of Management
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inventory control, random yield, linear inflation rule, online learning, regret analysis

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Learning Bundle Pricing of Reusable Resources

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Oct 2024
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University and University of Miami - Department of Management
Downloads 89 (599,337)

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bundle pricing, online learning, loss network, reusable resources, regret analysis