We consider an e-commerce retailer (e-tailer) who sells a catalog of products to customers from different regions during a finite selling season and fulfills orders through multiple fulfillment centers. The e-tailer faces a Joint Pricing and Fulfillment (JPF) problem: At the beginning of each...

We consider a multi-period Newsvendor problem where the seller decides the initial inventory level and dynamically sets the prices in every periods. A purchase made in a period can be returned at a (random) future period following a return time distribution. Unlike existing works in the...

Part 1: Generic Tools -- Chapter 1: The Stochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problem -- Chapter 2: Reinforcement Learning -- Chapter 3: Optimal Learning and Optimal Design -- Part 2: Price Optimization -- Chapter 4: Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning: Emerging Topics and State of the Art -- Chapter...

We consider a supply chain where multiple suppliers and a manufacturer contribute to the assembly of a product (through providing components or labor). The product fails if any of its components (or elements of work) fails, but finding the faulty component can be prohibitively difficult. We...