{"title":"Single-Product Assemble-to-Order Systems with Exogenous Lead Times","authors":"Alp Muharremoglu, Nan Yang, Xin Geng","doi":"10.1287/opre.2009.0365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2009.0365","url":null,"abstract":"Operations Research, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":54680,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139928451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Does the Gittins Policy Have Asymptotically Optimal Response Time Tail in the M/G/1?","authors":"Ziv Scully, Lucas van Kreveld","doi":"10.1287/opre.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Operations Research, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":54680,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139903047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Exact Solution to Wordle","authors":"Dimitris Bertsimas, Alex Paskov","doi":"10.1287/opre.2022.0434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.0434","url":null,"abstract":"Optimal Strategies for Wordle and its Variants Motivated by the recent, explosive popularity of Wordle and a suite of suboptimal attempts to solve the game, “An Exact Solution to Wordle,” by Dimitris Bertsimas and Alex Paskov, proposes a new and scalable framework to exactly solve Wordle and any of its variants. Namely through modeling the game as a finite-state Markov decision process and deriving several theoretical and computational speed-ups, Bertsimas and Paskov outline an algorithm to solve the game. Ultimately, they find that “SALET” is the best starting word and that the best strategy solves the game in 3.42 moves in expectation. Results and analysis are also extended for recent variants and settings, such as Wordle Hard Mode or optimizing against a worst-case situation.","PeriodicalId":54680,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139781457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Exact Solution to Wordle","authors":"Dimitris Bertsimas, Alex Paskov","doi":"10.1287/opre.2022.0434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.0434","url":null,"abstract":"Optimal Strategies for Wordle and its Variants Motivated by the recent, explosive popularity of Wordle and a suite of suboptimal attempts to solve the game, “An Exact Solution to Wordle,” by Dimitris Bertsimas and Alex Paskov, proposes a new and scalable framework to exactly solve Wordle and any of its variants. Namely through modeling the game as a finite-state Markov decision process and deriving several theoretical and computational speed-ups, Bertsimas and Paskov outline an algorithm to solve the game. Ultimately, they find that “SALET” is the best starting word and that the best strategy solves the game in 3.42 moves in expectation. Results and analysis are also extended for recent variants and settings, such as Wordle Hard Mode or optimizing against a worst-case situation.","PeriodicalId":54680,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139841238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Column-Randomized Linear Programs: Performance Guarantees and Applications","authors":"Yi-Chun Akchen, Velibor V. Mišić","doi":"10.1287/opre.2020.0494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2020.0494","url":null,"abstract":"Operations Research, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":54680,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139909533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Pareto Dominance Principle for Data-Driven Optimization","authors":"Tobias Sutter, Bart P. G. Van Parys, Daniel Kuhn","doi":"10.1287/opre.2021.0609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2021.0609","url":null,"abstract":"Operations Research, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":54680,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139518380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selling Quality-Differentiated Products in a Markovian Market with Unknown Transition Probabilities","authors":"N. Bora Keskin, Meng Li","doi":"10.1287/opre.2022.0316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.0316","url":null,"abstract":"Operations Research, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":54680,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139461608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Baris Ata, Mustafa H. Tongarlak, Deishin Lee, Joy Field
{"title":"A Dynamic Model for Managing Volunteer Engagement","authors":"Baris Ata, Mustafa H. Tongarlak, Deishin Lee, Joy Field","doi":"10.1287/opre.2021.0419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2021.0419","url":null,"abstract":"Operations Research, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":54680,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139415156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}