Operations Research

Article	Citations
Technical Note—There’s No Free Lunch: On the Hardness of Choosing a Correct Big-M in Bilevel Optimization	67
Algorithms for Online Matching, Assortment, and Pricing with Tight Weight-Dependent Competitive Ratios	50
Simple Bayesian Algorithms for Best-Arm Identification	50
Customer Choice Models vs. Machine Learning: Finding Optimal Product Displays on Alibaba	48
Robust Satisficing	46
Parallel Bayesian Global Optimization of Expensive Functions	41
Robust Data-Driven Vehicle Routing with Time Windows	39
Technical Note—Data-Driven Chance Constrained Programs over Wasserstein Balls	39
Assortment Optimization and Pricing Under the Multinomial Logit Model with Impatient Customers: Sequential Recommendation and Selection	38
Technical Note—Capacitated Assortment Optimization: Hardness and Approximation	38
Placement Optimization in Refugee Resettlement	38
Data-Driven Optimization: A Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Approach	33
Pooling Queues with Strategic Servers: The Effects of Customer Ownership	31
Duopoly Competition with Network Effects in Discrete Choice Models	30
Spatio-Temporal Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms	29
Pricing and Optimization in Shared Vehicle Systems: An Approximation Framework	29
Competitive Investment with Bayesian Learning: Choice of Business Size and Timing	28
Value of Information in Bayesian Routing Games	28
Imposing Contiguity Constraints in Political Districting Models	27
Technical Note—Two-Stage Sample Robust Optimization	27
Spatial Capacity Planning	27
Forecasting COVID-19 and Analyzing the Effect of Government Interventions	26
A Finite Time Analysis of Temporal Difference Learning with Linear Function Approximation	26
Vessel Service Planning in Seaports	25
Optimization-Based Scenario Reduction for Data-Driven Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization	25

The Best of Many Worlds: Dual Mirror Descent for Online Allocation Problems	25
Technical Note—Understanding the Performance of Capped Base-Stock Policies in Lost-Sales Inventory Models	25
Asymptotically Optimal Lagrangian Policies for Multi-Warehouse, Multi-Store Systems with Lost Sales	24
Timing It Right: Balancing Inpatient Congestion vs. Readmission Risk at Discharge	24
Always Valid Inference: Continuous Monitoring of A/B Tests	24
Offline Multi-Action Policy Learning: Generalization and Optimization	24
Nonparametric Pricing Analytics with Customer Covariates	24
On the Optimal Design of a Bipartite Matching Queueing System	23
Star-Shaped Risk Measures	22
Dynamic Incentive-Aware Learning: Robust Pricing in Contextual Auctions	22
Disruption and Rerouting in Supply Chain Networks	21
Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization and Variation Regularization	21
Why Is Maximum Clique Often Easy in Practice?	21
Branch-Cut-and-Price for the Robust Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Knapsack Uncertainty	21
On the Heavy-Tail Behavior of the Distributionally Robust Newsvendor	21
Optimal Portfolio Diversification via Independent Component Analysis	21
Robust Multiperiod Vehicle Routing Under Customer Order Uncertainty	21
Learning Unknown Service Rates in Queues: A Multiarmed Bandit Approach	21
Knockout-Tournament Procedures for Large-Scale Ranking and Selection in Parallel Computing Environments	20
Technical Note—Consumer Choice and Market Expansion: Modeling, Optimization, and Estimation	20
Fast Global Convergence of Natural Policy Gradient Methods with Entropy Regularization	20
Calibration of Distributionally Robust Empirical Optimization Models	19
Matching While Learning	19
Bayesian Decision Making in Groups is Hard	19
Need for Speed: The Impact of In-Process Delays on Customer Behavior in Online Retail	18
Technical Note—Static Pricing: Universal Guarantees for Reusable Resources	18
Online Allocation and Pricing: Constant Regret via Bellman Inequalities	18
Dynamic Server Assignment in Multiclass Queues with Shifts, with Applications to Nurse Staffing in Emergency Departments	18
Multilevel Approaches for the Critical Node Problem	18
Dynamic Stochastic Matching Under Limited Time	18
Data-Driven Pricing for a New Product	18
A Classifier to Decide on the Linearization of Mixed-Integer Quadratic Problems in CPLEX	18
On a Deterministic Approximation of Inventory Systems with Sequential Service-Level Constraints	17
Online Linear Programming: Dual Convergence, New Algorithms, and Regret Bounds	17
Diffusion in Random Networks: Impact of Degree Distribution	17
Fair Resource Allocation in a Volatile Marketplace	16
Subset Selection with Shrinkage: Sparse Linear Modeling When the SNR Is Low	16
Joint Assortment Optimization and Customization Under a Mixture of Multinomial Logit Models: On the Value of Personalized Assortments	16
Nonconvex Low-Rank Tensor Completion from Noisy Data	16
Distributionally Robust Inverse Covariance Estimation: The Wasserstein Shrinkage Estimator	16
Optimizing Opinions with Stubborn Agents	15
Efficiently Breaking the Curse of Horizon in Off-Policy Evaluation with Double Reinforcement Learning	15
Detecting Bots and Assessing Their Impact in Social Networks	15
When Risk Perception Gets in the Way: Probability Weighting and Underprevention	15
Compressing Over-the-Counter Markets	15
ALSO-X and ALSO-X+: Better Convex Approximations for Chance Constrained Programs	15
Technical Note—Data-Driven Newsvendor Problem: Performance of the Sample Average Approximation	15
Budget-Management Strategies in Repeated Auctions	15
Large-Scale Bundle-Size Pricing: A Theoretical Analysis	15
Maximum Likelihood Estimation by Monte Carlo Simulation: Toward Data-Driven Stochastic Modeling	15

The Value of Coordination in Multimarket Bidding of Grid Energy Storage	14
Technical Note—The Multinomial Logit Model with Sequential Offerings: Algorithmic Frameworks for Product Recommendation Displays	14
A New Approach for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demand: Combining Route Assignment with Process Flexibility	14
Multiplicative Pacing Equilibria in Auction Markets	14
Measuring Beliefs Under Ambiguity	14
M♮-Convexity and Its Applications in Operations	13
Improved Revenue Bounds for Posted-Price and Second-Price Mechanisms	13
Adjustable Robust Optimization Reformulations of Two-Stage Worst-Case Regret Minimization Problems	13
Dark Matter in (Volatility and) Equity Option Risk Premiums	13
Pricing with Samples	13
A Repeated Route-then-Schedule Approach to Coordinated Vehicle Platooning: Algorithms, Valid Inequalities and Computation	13
Operational Risk Management: A Stochastic Control Framework with Preventive and Corrective Controls	13
Robust Power Management via Learning and Game Design	13
On the Stability of Redundancy Models	13
Personalized Retail Promotions Through a Directed Acyclic Graph–Based Representation of Customer Preferences	13
Risk Management for Sustainable Sovereign Debt Financing	12
Optimal Price/Advertising Menus for Two-Sided Media Platforms	12
Technical Note—Joint Learning and Optimization of Multi-Product Pricing with Finite Resource Capacity and Unknown Demand Parameters	12
Exact Penalization of Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems	12
Voxel-Based Solution Approaches to the Three-Dimensional Irregular Packing Problem	12
Dynamic Learning and Market Making in Spread Betting Markets with Informed Bettors	12
Robustness in the Optimization of Risk Measures	12
Mallows-Smoothed Distribution over Rankings Approach for Modeling Choice	12
Inverse Optimization: Theory and Applications	12
Nonconvex Piecewise Linear Functions: Advanced Formulations and Simple Modeling Tools	12
Systemic Risk-Driven Portfolio Selection	12
Variable and Constant Returns-to-Scale Production Technologies with Component Processes	12
Branch-Price-and-Cut Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic and Correlated Travel Times	12
Multiobjective Optimization for Politically Fair Districting: A Scalable Multilevel Approach	12
Distributionally Robust Linear and Discrete Optimization with Marginals	11
Shortfall Risk Models When Information on Loss Function Is Incomplete	11
Mixed-Integer Optimization with Constraint Learning	11
Information Inundation on Platforms and Implications	11
Strategic Workforce Planning Under Uncertainty	11
How Service Quality Variability Hurts Revenue When Customers Learn: Implications for Dynamic Personalized Pricing	11
Nonsparse Learning with Latent Variables	11
Risk Arbitrage Opportunities for Stock Index Options	11
Efficient Solution of Maximum-Entropy Sampling Problems	11
Optimal Contract for Machine Repair and Maintenance	11
Constant Regret Resolving Heuristics for Price-Based Revenue Management	11
Achieving High Individual Service Levels Without Safety Stock? Optimal Rationing Policy of Pooled Resources	11
On-Demand Ride-Matching in a Spatial Model with Abandonment and Cancellation	11
The Shortest Path Interdiction Problem with Randomized Interdiction Strategies: Complexity and Algorithms	11
Demand Shaping Through Bundling and Product Configuration: A Dynamic Multiproduct Inventory-Pricing Model	11
Learning in Structured MDPs with Convex Cost Functions: Improved Regret Bounds for Inventory Management	11
Soft OR and Practice: The Contribution of the Founders of Operations Research	10
Finite-Sample Guarantees for Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization: Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality	10
Pooling Agents for Customer-Intensive Services	10
Selfishness Need Not Be Bad	10
Online Passenger Flow Control in Metro Lines	10
Mixed-Projection Conic Optimization: A New Paradigm for Modeling Rank Constraints	10
How Endogenization of the Reference Point Affects Loss Aversion: A Study of Portfolio Selection	10
1.79-Approximation Algorithms for Continuous Review Single-Sourcing Lost-Sales and Dual-Sourcing Inventory Models	10
Nonadditive Multiattribute Utility Functions for Portfolio Decision Analysis	10
Game of Variable Contributions to the Common Good Under Uncertainty	10
Dynamic Pricing and Matching for Two-Sided Queues	10
Global Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization: Nonasymptotic Performance Bounds and Momentum-Based Acceleration	10
Performance of the Smallest-Variance-First Rule in Appointment Sequencing	10
Preservation of Supermodularity in Parametric Optimization: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions on Constraint Structures	10
Asynchronous Schemes for Stochastic and Misspecified Potential Games and Nonconvex Optimization	10
Dynamic Risked Equilibrium	10
The Discrete Moment Problem with Nonconvex Shape Constraints	10
Pricing of Debt and Equity in a Financial Network with Comonotonic Endowments	10
Inventory Integration with Rational Consumers	9
Parallel Adaptive Survivor Selection	9
Asymmetric Multidepot Vehicle Routing Problems: Valid Inequalities and a Branch-and-Cut Algorithm	9
Stochastic Knapsack Revisited: The Service Level Perspective	9
Technical Note—Bifurcating Constraints to Improve Approximation Ratios for Network Revenue Management with Reusable Resources	9
Scheduling to Differentiate Service in a Multiclass Service System	9
Quantile Inverse Optimization: Improving Stability in Inverse Linear Programming	9
Subsampling to Enhance Efficiency in Input Uncertainty Quantification	9
Time Consistency of the Mean-Risk Problem	9
Data Aggregation and Demand Prediction	9
Operations Research: Topics, Impact, and Trends from 1952–2019	9
Order Now, Pickup in 30 Minutes: Managing Queues with Static Delivery Guarantees	9
Competitive Equilibrium and Trading Networks: A Network Flow Approach	9
Dynamic Programs with Shared Resources and Signals: Dynamic Fluid Policies and Asymptotic Optimality	9
Time-Varying Risk Aversion and Dynamic Portfolio Allocation	9
Separation of Perishable Inventories in Offline Retailing Through Transshipment	9
Is Q-Learning Minimax Optimal? A Tight Sample Complexity Analysis	9

Patient-Type Bayes-Adaptive Treatment Plans	9
Partial Recovery in the Graph Alignment Problem	9
Asymptotically Optimal Control of a Centralized Dynamic Matching Market with General Utilities	8
The Inventory Routing Problem Under Uncertainty	8
Regularized Aggregation of One-Off Probability Predictions	8
Scalable Reinforcement Learning for Multiagent Networked Systems	8
Objective Selection for Cancer Treatment: An Inverse Optimization Approach	8
On the Profitability of Selfish Blockchain Mining Under Consideration of Ruin	8
Information and Memory in Dynamic Resource Allocation	8
Integrated Online Learning and Adaptive Control in Queueing Systems with Uncertain Payoffs	8
Heteroscedastic Exponomial Choice	8
A Convex Reformulation and an Outer Approximation for a Large Class of Binary Quadratic Programs	8
Risk-Averse Stochastic Programming: Time Consistency and Optimal Stopping	8
Network Inspection for Detecting Strategic Attacks	8
The Constrained Reliable Shortest Path Problem in Stochastic Time-Dependent Networks	8
A Token-Based Central Queue with Order-Independent Service Rates	8
Efficient Learning for Clustering and Optimizing Context-Dependent Designs	8
Online Resource Allocation with Personalized Learning	8
Parallel Innovation Contests	8
Mismanaging Diagnostic Accuracy Under Congestion	8
Technical Note—Bootstrap-based Budget Allocation for Nested Simulation	7
Transmission Capacity Allocation in Zonal Electricity Markets	7
The Gatekeeper’s Dilemma: “When Should I Transfer This Customer?”	7
Optimal Learning Under Robustness and Time-Consistency	7
Recent Developments in Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow: Overview of Challenge 1 in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition	7
Online Resource Allocation Under Partially Predictable Demand	7
School Choice in Chile	7
A Restless Bandit Model for Resource Allocation, Competition, and Reservation	7
Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices	7
Mean Field Equilibrium: Uniqueness, Existence, and Comparative Statics	7
Design of Incentive Programs for Optimal Medication Adherence in the Presence of Observable Consumption	7
The Strategic Benefit of Request for Proposal/Quotation	7
Incentive-Compatible Learning of Reserve Prices for Repeated Auctions	7
The Analytics of Bed Shortages: Coherent Metric, Prediction, and Optimization	7
Online Matching with Stochastic Rewards: Optimal Competitive Ratio via Path-Based Formulation	7
Deals or No Deals: Contract Design for Online Advertising	7
Technical Note—Assortment Planning for Two-Sided Sequential Matching Markets	7
Tight Guarantees for Static Threshold Policies in the Prophet Secretary Problem	6
Atomic Dynamic Flow Games: Adaptive vs. Nonadaptive Agents	6
Inventory Sharing for Perishable Products: Application to Platelet Inventory Management in Hospital Blood Banks	6
Stall Economy: The Value of Mobility in Retail on Wheels	6
Strategic Release of Information in Platforms: Entry, Competition, and Welfare	6
Intertemporal Price Discrimination with Time-Varying Valuations	6
An Approximate Analysis of Dynamic Pricing, Outsourcing, and Scheduling Policies for a Multiclass Make-to-Stock Queue in the Heavy Traffic Regime	6
Managing Queues with Different Resource Requirements	6
Data-Driven Transit Network Design at Scale	6
Procurement Mechanisms for Assortments of Differentiated Products	6
Sample Out-of-Sample Inference Based on Wasserstein Distance	6
Robust Learning of Consumer Preferences	6
Long-Term Behavior of Dynamic Equilibria in Fluid Queuing Networks	6
Using ℓ1-Relaxation and Integer Programming to Obtain Dual Bounds for Sparse PCA	6
Bayesian Exploration: Incentivizing Exploration in Bayesian Games	6
Minimizing Multimodular Functions and Allocating Capacity in Bike-Sharing Systems	6
On the Consistent Path Problem	6
Network Revenue Management Under a Spiked Multinomial Logit Choice Model	6
Menu Costs and the Bullwhip Effect: Supply Chain Implications of Dynamic Pricing	6
Dynamic Inventory Control with Fixed Setup Costs and Unknown Discrete Demand Distribution	6
Delegated Concept Testing in New Product Development	6
Axiomatizing the Bayesian Paradigm in Parallel Small Worlds	6
Targeting, Deployment, and Loss-Tolerance in Lanchester Engagements	6
Technical Note—Optimal Pricing Under Multiple-Discrete Customer Choices and Diminishing Return of Consumption	6
On Policies for Single-Leg Revenue Management with Limited Demand Information	6
Revenue Management Under a Mixture of Independent Demand and Multinomial Logit Models	6
Persuasion in Networks: Public Signals and Cores	6
Who Is Next: Patient Prioritization Under Emergency Department Blocking	6
Distributionally Robust Losses for Latent Covariate Mixtures	6
Search Under Accumulated Pressure	6
Nash Social Welfare Approximation for Strategic Agents	6
Dynamic Resource Allocation in the Cloud with Near-Optimal Efficiency	5
An Analysis of “Buy X, Get One Free” Reward Programs	5
Reducing Delay in Retrial Queues by Simultaneously Differentiating Service and Retrial Rates	5
Testing, Voluntary Social Distancing, and the Spread of an Infection	5
Store-Wide Shelf-Space Allocation with Ripple Effects Driving Traffic	5
Integrated Ad Delivery Planning for Targeted Display Advertising	5
Expanding Service Capabilities Through an On-Demand Workforce	5
Market Efficient Portfolios in a Systemic Economy	5
Dynamic Double Auctions: Toward First Best	5
The Effect of Social Preferences on Sales and Operations Planning	5
Learning to Approximate Industrial Problems by Operations Research Classic Problems	5
Breaking the Sample Size Barrier in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model	5
To Batch or Not to Batch? Impact of Admission Batching on Emergency Department Boarding Time and Physician Productivity	5
Surgical Case-Mix and Discharge Decisions: Does Within-Hospital Coordination Matter?	5
Smart Policies for Multisource Inventory Systems and General Tandem Queues with Order Tracking and Expediting	5
Data-Driven Ranking and Selection Under Input Uncertainty	5
Optimal Market-Integration Decisions by Policymakers: Modeling and Analysis of Agriculture Market Data	5
Heavy-Traffic Universality of Redundancy Systems with Assignment Constraints	5
Procurement with Cost and Noncost Attributes: Cost-Sharing Mechanisms	5
OR Practice–Data Analytics for Optimal Detection of Metastatic Prostate Cancer	5
Majority Judgment vs. Approval Voting	5
Dynamic Interday and Intraday Scheduling	5
Technical Note—Dynamic Data-Driven Estimation of Nonparametric Choice Models	5
Robustness of Proactive Intensive Care Unit Transfer Policies	5
To Pool or Not to Pool: Queueing Design for Large-Scale Service Systems	5
Cross-Sectional Variation of Intraday Liquidity, Cross-Impact, and Their Effect on Portfolio Execution	5
A Dynamic Model for Managing Volunteer Engagement	5