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Hossein Abouee Mehrizi

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1

Canada

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Scholarly Papers (17)

1.

Adoption of Electric Vehicles in Car Sharing Market

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2019
Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, Opher Baron, O. Berman and David Chen
University of Waterloo, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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electric vehicles, car sharing, sustainable operations, queueing networks

2.

Optimal Joint Replenishment and Transshipment Policies in a Multi-Period Inventory System With Lost Sales

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2576067
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Mar 2015
Shrutivandana Sharma, Hossein Abouee Mehrizi and Oded Berman
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), University of Waterloo and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Downloads 376 (196,458)
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inventory management, transshipment, replenishment, lost sales, stochastic optimization, finite horizon, dynamic programming

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Data-Driven Platelet Inventory Management Under Uncertainty in the Remaining Shelf-Life of Units

Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2022
Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, Mahdi Mirjalili and Vahid Sarhangian
University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department and University of Toronto - Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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Perishable inventory management, blood supply chain management, empirical risk minimization, robust optimization

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Equity vs. Efficiency in Service Systems with Differentiated Demand

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 23 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2025
Hamid Arzani, Hossein Abouee Mehrizi and Ming Hu
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of Waterloo and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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service operations, queue, equity, fairness, efficiency, price of fairness

5.

Tandem Queues with Impatient Customers

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3116815
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2019
Jianfu Wang, Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, Opher Baron and Oded Berman
City University of Hong Kong (CityU), University of Waterloo, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Toronto - Operations Management
Downloads 309 (244,299)
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tandem queue, impatient customers, abandonment, flexible servers

6.

Asymptotic Analysis of Multiclass Advance Patient Scheduling

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 10 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 29 May 2024
University of Waterloo, University of Georgia and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Multiclass scheduling, Stochastic models, Optimal control, Diffusion approximation, Neural networks, Partial differential equations, HJB equations

7.

Efficient Sampling: Sample Average Inference of Service Capacity in a Queue

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3892899
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2021
Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, Mohammad Hossein Eshraghi and Ming Hu
University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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service system, observable queue, sample average inference, learning, unknown service capacity, queueing economics

8.

Spatial Network Design for Public Services

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Oct 2025 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2025
Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, Sina Hoveida and Ming Hu
University of Waterloo, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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network design, social welfare, queueing systems, capacity management, pricing, optimal transport, spatial operations

9.

Managing Perishable Inventory Systems with Multiple Demand Classes

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 Jul 2018
Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, Opher Baron, O. Berman and David Chen
University of Waterloo, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Downloads 214 (356,192)
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Perishable inventory systems; multiple demand classes; stochastic optimal control; demand fulfillment and rationing; multimodularity

10.

Pricing in Service Systems with Rational Balking and Abandonment of Time-Sensitive Customers

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2021
Hossein Abouee Mehrizi and Renata Konrad
University of Waterloo and Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Dynamic Service Allocation with Returns: The Case of Admission and Discharge Control with Readmission in Hospital

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Sep 2024
Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, Ya-Tang Chuang, Michael Jong Kim and Xinyuan Zhang
University of Waterloo, National Cheng Kung University, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia and Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
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Service allocation, admission and discharge, hospital readmission, decentralized control, dynamic programming, index policy, Service systems with returns

12.

Staff Scheduling During a Pandemic: The Case of Radiation Therapy Department

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 May 2022
University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo, Grand River Hospital, Grand River Hospital and University of Waterloo
Downloads 121 (592,433)
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Staff Scheduling, Optimization, Pandemic, COVID-19, Simulation

13.

Reducing Conservatism in Robust Optimization with Application to Radiation Therapy

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 10 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2025
University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo and University of Waterloo
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Pareto Robust Optimization (PRO), Inverse Optimization, Superior and Light PRO, Radiation Therapy, Personalized Treatment

14.

Dynamic Control of Multiclass Multi-Episode Service Systems with Waiting Time Dependent Transitions

Rotman School of Management Working Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 27 Jan 2026 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2026
Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, Nasser Barjesteh, Amir Marshal and Brendan Wylie-Toal
University of Waterloo, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of Waterloo and KidsAbility Center for Child Development
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Multiple episodes of service, Rehabilitation, Stochastic outcomes, Waiting time dependent transitions, Scheduling, Service rate control, Abandonment, Heavy traffic

15.

Leveraging Data Contributors to Enhance Social Welfare Through Crowdsensing

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2025
Elham Heydari-Gharaei, Hossein Abouee Mehrizi and Mehdi Nourinejad
University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and York University
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Multi-Class State-Dependent Service Systems with Returns

Posted: 27 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2026
Hossein Abouee Mehrizi and Nasser Barjesteh
University of Waterloo and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

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state-dependent queueing network, Markov Chain, fluid approximation, equilibrium analysis

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Customer Scheduling in Large Service Systems Under Model Uncertainty

Posted: 25 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2023
Shiwei Chai, Xu Sun and Hossein Abouee Mehrizi
University of Florida - Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Miami - Department of Management Science and University of Waterloo

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many-server queues, customer scheduling, abandonment, diffusion analysis, differential games