In service settings such as multiple listing for organ transplants and supermarkets with multiple checkout lines, some customers join multiple queues simultaneously, enabling them to receive service in any one of the queues. We study fairness in these systems: Does such multiple queue-joining...

We investigate the effects of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on highway congestion. AVs have the potential to significantly reduce highway congestion, since these vehicles are able to maintain smaller inter-vehicle gaps and travel together in larger platoons (or batches) than human-driven vehicles...

Proficiency in many sophisticated tasks is attained through experience-based learning, in other words, learning by doing. For example, transplant surgeons need to practice difficult surgeries to actually master the skills required. Meanwhile, such experienced-based learning may affect other...