online decision-making

The Importance of Exploration in Online Marketplaces

In online marketplaces, a critical objective of the platform's intermediation is ensuring the sellers' quality. This is particularly challenging in large marketplaces, where it's infeasible to pre-screen all sellers, and the platform uses feedback …

Pricing in Ride-Sharing Platforms: A Queueing-Theoretic Approach

The Importance of Exploration in Online Marketplaces

Nearly all online marketplaces face the challenge of ensuring the quality of sellers; this is particularly challenging in large marketplaces, where it may be infeasible to pre-screen all sellers. A growing trend in such settings is to use feedback …

Greedy Sensor Selection under Channel Uncertainty

Estimation in resource constrained sensor networks where the fusion center selects a fixed-size subset from a pool of available sensors observing the states of a linear dynamical system is considered. With some probability, the communication between …

Towards a queueing-based framework for in-network function computation

We seek to develop network algorithms for function computation in sensor networks. Specifically, we want dynamic joint aggregation, routing, and scheduling algorithms that have analytically provable performance benefits due to in-network computation …

On distributed scheduling with heterogeneously delayed network-state information

We study the problem of distributed scheduling in wireless networks, where each node makes individual scheduling decisions based on heterogeneously delayed network state information (NSI). This leads to inconsistency in the views of the network …