David Simchi-Levi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering

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1.

Dynamic Pricing and Demand Learning with Limited Price Experimentation

Operations Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2017
Wang Chi Cheung, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)
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Revenue Management, Dynamic Pricing, Learning-Earning Trade-off, Price Experimentation

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Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling

Operations Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2018
Kris Ferreira, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang
Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)
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revenue management, pricing, multi-armed bandit, Thompson sampling

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A Statistical Learning Approach to Personalization in Revenue Management

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2020
Xi Chen, Zachary Owen, Clark Pixton and David Simchi-Levi
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center, Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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revenue management, statistical learning

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A New Approach for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demand: Combining Route Assignment with Process Flexibility

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2022
Kirby Ledvina, Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi and Yehua Wei
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Decision Sciences Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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stochastic capacitated vehicle routing, a priori route assignment, process flexibility, probabilistic analysis

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Assortment Planning for Recommendations at Checkout under Inventory Constraints

Mathematics of Operations Research (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023
Xi Chen, Will Ma, David Simchi-Levi and Linwei Xin
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Graduate School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 1,214 (29,026)
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revenue management; assortment optimization; personalized recommendation; online algorithms; competitive ratio

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Large-scale Price Optimization for an Online Fashion Retailer

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Feb 2021
Hanwei Li, David Simchi-Levi, Rui Sun, Michelle Xiao Wu, Vladimir Fux, Torsten Gellert, Thorsten Greiner and Andrea Taverna
City University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Zalando GmbH
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Fashion Retailing, Operations Management, Business Analytics, Price Optimization, Large Scale Decomposition

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Online Assortment Optimization with Reusable Resources

Management Science
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2021
Xiao-Yue Gong, Vineet Goyal, Garud Iyengar, David Simchi-Levi, Rajan Udwani and Shuangyu Wang
MIT Operations Research Center, Columbia University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Columbia University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, UC Berkeley and Columbia University
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Online Algorithms, Assortment Optimization, Resource Allocation, Competitive Ratio

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Dynamic Learning and Pricing with Model Misspecification

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 27 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2020
Mila Nambiar, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)
Downloads 1,061 (35,180)
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revenue management, pricing, misspecification, fashion retail

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Thompson Sampling for Online Personalized Assortment Optimization Problems with Multinomial Logit Choice Models

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Nov 2017
Wang Chi Cheung and David Simchi-Levi
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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Assortment Optimization, Multi-armed Bandits, Multinomial Logit Choice Models, Thompson Sampling.

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Data-Driven Approximation Schemes for Joint Pricing and Inventory Control Models

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 25 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2021
Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi and Li Wang
National University of Singapore (NUS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center
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dynamic pricing, inventory control, revenue management, approximation algorithm, data-driven optimization, dynamic programming

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Algorithms for Online Matching, Assortment, and Pricing with Tight Weight-Dependent Competitive Ratios

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2021
Will Ma and David Simchi-Levi
Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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Online Algorithms, Competitive Ratio, Revenue Management, Online Matching, Adwords, Booking Limits

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Calibrating Sales Forecast in a Pandemic Using Competitive Online Non-Parametric Regression

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2022
David Simchi-Levi, Rui Sun, Michelle Xiao Wu and Ruihao Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and Cornell University
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sales forecast, online learning, non-parametric regression, COVID-19 pandemic

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Bandits atop Reinforcement Learning: Tackling Online Inventory Models With Cyclic Demands

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 21 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2022
Xiao-Yue Gong and David Simchi-Levi
MIT Operations Research Center and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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inventory, cyclic demands, censored demand, lost-sales, reinforcement learning, nonparametric, bandits, regret analysis, lead time, joint-ordering cost

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Increasing Supply Chain Robustness through Process Flexibility and Inventory

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2017
David Simchi-Levi, He Wang and Yehua Wei
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) and Decision Sciences Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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supply chain risk mitigation strategies, process flexibility, inventory, robust optimization

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Hedging the Drift: Learning to Optimize Under Non-Stationarity

Forthcoming at Management Science
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 30 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2021
Wang Chi Cheung, David Simchi-Levi and Ruihao Zhu
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Cornell University
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data-driven decision-making, non-stationary bandit optimization, revenue management

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Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with Fixed Ordering Cost and Incomplete Demand Information

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 24 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2021
Boxiao Chen, David Simchi-Levi, Yining Wang and Yuan Zhou
University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Business Administration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas and Tsinghua University - Yau Mathematical Sciences Center
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dynamic pricing, inventory control, fixed ordering cost, online learning, asymptotic analysis

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Disruption Risk Mitigation in Supply Chains - The Risk Exposure Index Revisited

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2018
Sarah Yini Gao, David Simchi-Levi, Chung-Piaw Teo and Zhenzhen Yan
Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, NUS Business School - Department of Decision Sciences and Nanyang Technological University
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supply chain risk management, disruption management, time-to-survive, sensitivity analysis, completely positive programming.

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Estimating and Exploiting the Impact of Photo Layout: A Structural Approach

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2021
Hanwei Li, David Simchi-Levi, Michelle Xiao Wu and Weiming Zhu
City University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong
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Sharing Economy, Choice Model, Empirical Operations Management

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Multi-Modal Dynamic Pricing

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2020
Yining Wang, Boxiao Chen and David Simchi-Levi
University of Texas at Dallas, University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Business Administration and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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multi-modal reward function, dynamic pricing, nonparametric learning, asymptotic analyses

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Constructing Demand Curves from a Single Observation of Bundle Sales

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2020
Will Ma and David Simchi-Levi
Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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bundling, valuation learning, revenue management

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Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines Under Limited Supply

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 31 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2020
Xin Chen, Menglong Li, David Simchi-Levi and Tiancheng Zhao
Georgia Institute of Technology - H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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COVID-19, vaccine allocation, limited supply, static policy, dynamic policy

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Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 15 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2022
Iavor Bojinov, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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experimental design, switchback experiments, discrete optimization, central limit theorem

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Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning: The Blessing of (More) Optimism

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
Wang Chi Cheung, David Simchi-Levi and Ruihao Zhu
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Cornell University
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reinforcement learning, data-driven decision making, confidence widening

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Assortment Display, Price Competition and Fairness in Online Marketplaces

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 31 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2022
Hongyu Chen, Hanwei Li, David Simchi-Levi, Michelle Xiao Wu and Weiming Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), City University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong
Downloads 485 (98,590)
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Operations Management, Online Platforms, Price Competition, Revenue Management, Assortment Optimization, Market Equilibrium, Fairness

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Offline Pricing and Demand Learning with Censored Data

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 01 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2021
Jinzhi Bu, David Simchi-Levi and Li Wang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center
Downloads 447 (108,598)
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price optimization, demand censoring, data-driven algorithm, offline learning, finite-sample analysis

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Meta Dynamic Pricing: Transfer Learning Across Experiments

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 06 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2020
Hamsa Bastani, David Simchi-Levi and Ruihao Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Cornell University
Downloads 438 (111,203)
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Thompson sampling, transfer learning, dynamic pricing, meta learning

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Distributionally Robust Omnichannel Stocking Decisions in Quick Fulfillment Systems

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2019
Louis Chen, Rong Jin, Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi and Zirun Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Operations Research Center, Students, Alibaba Group, National University of Singapore (NUS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Alibaba Group
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Robust Optimization, Omnichannel Inventory Management, Optimal Transport, New Retail

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Phase Transitions in Bandits with Switching Constraints

Management Science (to appear)
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 06 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2022
David Simchi-Levi and Yunzong Xu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 434 (112,421)
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multi-armed bandit, switching constraint, limited switches, phase transition, regret analysis, minimax lower bound, graph traversal, revenue management, dynamic pricing

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Multi-armed Bandit Experimental Design: Online Decision-making and Adaptive Inference

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2023
David Simchi-Levi and Chonghuan Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 427 (114,558)

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Adaptive Experimental Design, Multi-armed Bandit, Online Learning, Treatment Effect, Minimax Multi-Objective Optimization, Pareto Optimality

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Global Operations Sourcing Strategy: A Chinese Perspective

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2017
Y. Chen, Morris A. Cohen, Shiliang Cui, Ming Dong, Shaoxuan Liu and David Simchi-Levi
Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Antai College of Economics and Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law

Forthcoming in Management Science
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 29 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2021
Jinzhi Bu, David Simchi-Levi and Yunzong Xu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 407 (121,137)
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dynamic pricing, online learning, offline data, phase transition, inverse-square law

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On Greedy-like Policies in Online Matching with Reusable Network Resources and Decaying Rewards

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2023
David Simchi-Levi, Zeyu Zheng and Feng Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
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online matching, reusable resources, network resources, decaying rewards, greedy-like policy, competitive ratio

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Sampling-Based Approximation Schemes for Capacitated Stochastic Inventory Control Models

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2017
Wang Chi Cheung and David Simchi-Levi
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 373 (133,784)
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Sample Average Approximation, Inventory Models, Data-driven

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Price and Assortment Optimization for Reusable Resources

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2018
Zachary Owen and David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 370 (134,947)
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Revenue Management, Reusable Resources, Online Algorithms

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Distributionally Robust Linear and Discrete Optimization with Marginals

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 27 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2019
Louis Chen, Will Ma, Karthik Natarajan, David Simchi-Levi and Zhenzhen Yan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Operations Research Center, Students, Graduate School of Business, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Nanyang Technological University
Downloads 355 (141,310)
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Robust Optimization, Discrete Optimization, Optimal Transport

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Dynamic Pricing (and Assortment) under a Static Calendar

Management Science
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 26 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2020
Will Ma, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
Graduate School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
Downloads 338 (148,998)
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revenue management, dynamic pricing, dynamic assortment

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Drivers of Product Expiration in Consumer Packaged Goods Retailing

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2017
Arzum Akkas, Vishal Gaur and David Simchi-Levi
Boston University - Questrom School of Business, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 304 (166,703)
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retail operations, consumer packaged goods, product expiration, food waste, empirical, perishable inventory, supply chain management, marketing/operations interface, sustainable operations management, zero-inflated models

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Blind Network Revenue Management and Bandits with Knapsacks under Limited Switches

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 06 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2021
David Simchi-Levi, Yunzong Xu and Jinglong Zhao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Network Revenue Management, Bandits With Knapsacks, Online Learning, Limited Switches

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Context-Based Dynamic Pricing with Separable Demand Models

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Jun 2022
Jinzhi Bu, David Simchi-Levi and Chonghuan Wang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 294 (172,643)

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Separable Demand, Dynamic Pricing, Contextual Information, Online Learning

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Designing Response Supply Chain against Bioattacks

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2019
David Simchi-Levi, Nikolaos Trichakis and Peter Yun Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 291 (174,589)
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Bioterrorism, Supply Chain Design, Robust Optimization

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Reaping the Benefits of Bundling under High Production Costs

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2016
Will Ma and David Simchi-Levi
Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 284 (179,028)
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revenue management, monopolist pricing, bundling, marketing, Bayesian mechanism design

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Bypassing the Monster: A Faster and Simpler Optimal Algorithm for Contextual Bandits under Realizability

Mathematics of Operations Research (to appear)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2021
David Simchi-Levi and Yunzong Xu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 279 (182,299)
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contextual bandit, statistical learning, offline regression, computational efficiency, reduction

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Dynamic Inventory Allocation with Demand Learning for Seasonal Goods

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2020
Mila Nambiar, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)
Downloads 255 (199,502)

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Multi-echelon Inventory; Inventory Allocation; Demand Learning

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Multi-Stage and Multi-Customer Assortment Optimization With Inventory Constraints

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2020
Elaheh Fata, Will Ma and David Simchi-Levi
Queen's University - Smith School of Business, Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 251 (202,654)
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Assortment Optimization, Online Matching, Online Marketplaces, Online Advertising

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Trading Safety Stock for Service Response Time in Inventory Positioning

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2022
Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi, Ryan Ferer, Jonathan Mays, Ken Merriam, Megan Forrester and Alex Hamrick
National University of Singapore (NUS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Accenture, Accenture, Accenture, The Home Depot and The Home Depot
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sales forecast, risk pooling, service quality, supply chain network, online retailing

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Efficiency and Performance Guarantees for Choice-Based Network Revenue Management Problems with Flexible Products

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 15 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2016
Wang Chi Cheung and David Simchi-Levi
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 240 (211,627)
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Assortment Optimization, Efficient Algorithms, Choice Models, Revenue Management, Online Optimization

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A Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for Single-Item Stochastic Lot-Sizing Problems with Discrete Demand

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4582-06
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Feb 2006
James B. Orlin, Nir Halman, Diego Klabjan, Mohamed Mostagir and David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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Inventory Replenishment Policy

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Solving Large-Scale Vehicle Routing Problems with Unsplit Demands via Limited Information

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2023
Haichen Hu, Hanzhang Qin and David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 202 (248,956)

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vehicle routing, region partitioning, online bin-packing, process flexibility, asymptotic analysis

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Branch-and-Bound Algorithms for Assortment Optimization Under Weakly Rational Choice

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Aug 2016
Clark Pixton and David Simchi-Levi
Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 198 (253,538)

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assortment optimization, choice models, non-parametric choice, mixed-integer optimization, branch-and-bound, approximation schemes

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Competition in the Supply Option Market

IESE Business School Working Paper No. 718
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Victor Martinez-de-Albeniz and David Simchi-Levi
IESE Business School - University of Navarra and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 196 (255,824)
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Improving Supply Chain Efficiency Through Wholesale Price Renegotiation

IESE Business School Working Paper No. 721
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Apr 2008
Victor Martinez-de-Albeniz and David Simchi-Levi
IESE Business School - University of Navarra and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 184 (270,782)
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Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Personalized Pricing with Demand Learning

NYU Stern School of Business Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2022
Xi Chen, David Simchi-Levi and Yining Wang
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and University of Texas at Dallas
Downloads 179 (277,288)
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Differential privacy, Dynamic pricing, Generalized Linear models, personal information

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Pricing Experimental Design: Causal Effect, Expected Revenue and Tail Risk

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Feb 2023
David Simchi-Levi and Chonghuan Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 176 (282,852)

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Adaptive Experimental Design, Treatment Effect, Revenue Management, Online Learning, Risk Control, Dynamic Pricing

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Dynamic Pricing With Infrequent Inventory Replenishments

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2023
Boxiao Chen, Menglong Li and David Simchi-Levi
University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Business Administration, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 160 (305,168)

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Dynamic pricing, infrequent inventory replenishment, online demand learning, convergence analyses

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Online Matching with Bayesian Rewards

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2020
David Simchi-Levi, Rui Sun and Xinshang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and Alibaba Group
Downloads 156 (311,754)

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Online Matching, Bayesian Learning, Markovian Bandits

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A Simple and Optimal Policy Design with Safety against Heavy-tailed Risk for Stochastic Bandits

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2022
David Simchi-Levi, Zeyu Zheng and Feng Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
Downloads 153 (317,019)

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stochastic bandits, worst-case optimality, instance-dependent consistency, heavy-tailed risk

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Online Learning and Optimization for Revenue Management Problems with Add-on Discounts

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 01 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
David Simchi-Levi, Rui Sun and Huanan Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Downloads 151 (320,461)

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revenue management, add-on discount, online learning, approximation algorithm

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Analyzing Process Flexibility: A Distribution-Free Approach with Partial Expectations

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2016
Hoda Bidkhori, David Simchi-Levi and Yehua Wei
University of Pittsburgh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Decision Sciences Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Downloads 145 (331,114)
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Process flexibility, distributionally-robust analysis, chaining, production system design

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Shrinking the Upper Confidence Bound: A Dynamic Product Selection Problem for Urban Warehouses

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 11 May 2019
Rong Jin, David Simchi-Levi, Li Wang, Xinshang Wang and Sen Yang
Alibaba Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center, Alibaba Group and Alibaba Group
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sequential decision making, adaptive product selection, online learning, online retailing, stochastic optimization, regret analysis

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Network Effects, Customer Reviews, and Product Proliferation in Online Durable Goods Markets

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Jun 2020
Clark Pixton and David Simchi-Levi
Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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E-commerce, social learning, customer reviews, network effects, product proliferation

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Static Pricing for a Network Service Provider

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Jul 2006
Felipe Caro and David Simchi-Levi
University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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phone cards, Erlang loss system, product-form, stochastic knapsack, quasiconcavity.

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Inventory Balancing with Online Learning

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
Wang Chi Cheung, Will Ma, David Simchi-Levi and Xinshang Wang
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Graduate School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Alibaba Group
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The Competitive Ratio of Threshold Policies for Online Unit-density Knapsack Problems

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2019
Will Ma, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
Graduate School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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online knapsack, competitive ratio, online approximation algorithms

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Bayesian Mechanism Design for Blockchain Transaction Fee Allocation

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 19 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 21 May 2023
Xi Chen, David Simchi-Levi, Zishuo Zhao and Yuan Zhou
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Tsinghua University - Yau Mathematical Sciences Center
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blockchain, mechanism design, Bayesian game, multinomial logit choice model

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Efficient Cloud Server Deployment Under Demand Uncertainty

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Jul 2023
Rui Peng Liu, Konstantina Mellou, Xiao-Yue Gong, Beibin Li, Thomas Coffee, Jeevan Pathuri, David Simchi-Levi and Ishai Menache
Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research, MIT Operations Research Center, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research, Microsoft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Microsoft Research
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supply chain optimization, cloud computing, capacity planning

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Non-stationary Experimental Design under Structured Trends

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Jul 2023
David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang and Zeyu Zheng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of California, Berkeley
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Adaptive Experimental Design, Non-stationary, Online Learning, Treatment Effect

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Optimal Static Pricing for a Tree Network

Annals of Operation Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 11 Apr 2012
Felipe Caro and David Simchi-Levi
University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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tree network

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Switchback Experiments in a Reactive Environment

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 May 2023 Last Revised: 19 May 2023
Hongyu Chen and David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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experimental design, switchback experiment, causal inference, importance sampling.