In time series forecasting, decomposition-based algorithms break aggregate data into meaningful components and are therefore appreciated for their particular advantages in interpretability. Recent algorithms often combine machine learning (hereafter ML) methodology with decomposition to improve...

Request-for-quote (RFQ) is the most common way for contractor selection, which is of vital importance to the success of project outsourcing. Project clients need to carefully design the RFQ mechanism to select and incentivize contractors properly. Problem definition: We study the RFQ design...