In the absence of randomized controlled and natural experiments, it is necessary to balance the treated and control groups in order to estimate an unbiased causal effect of interest; otherwise, an opposite effect may be estimated, and incorrect …
We consider the problem of an operator controlling a fleet of electric vehicles for use in a ridehailing service. The operator, seeking to maximize profit, must assign vehicles to requests as they arise as well as recharge and reposition vehicles in …
We present a new general approach to modeling research problems as Atari-like videogames to make them amenable to recent groundbreaking solution methods from the deep reinforcement learning community. The approach is flexible, applicable to a wide …