In many real-life optimization problems involving multiple agents, the rewards are not necessarily known exactly in advance, but rather depend on sources of exogenous uncertainty. For instance, delivery companies might have to coordinate to choose who should serve which foreseen customer, under uncertainty in the locations of the customers. The framework of Distributed Constraint Optimization u...

We investigate the within site purchase and search behavior of online customers visiting one of the largest European online travel agencies. Using a dynamic two stage model of purchase incidence and carrier choice we study how price uncertainty affects consumer purchase behavior. We find that current and future category value along with visitors’ browsing experience and search effort are import...

Fierce competition as well as the recent financial crisis in financial and banking industries made credit scoring gain importance. An accurate estimation of credit risk helps organizations to decide whether or not to grant credit to potential customers. Many classification methods have been suggested to handle this problem in the literature. This paper proposes a model for evaluating credit ris...

In this paper, we consider residential demandresponse (DR) programs where an aggregator calls upon someresidential customers to change their demand so that the totalload adjustment is as close to a target value as possible.Major challenges lie in the uncertainty and randomness of thecustomer behaviors in response to DR signals, and the limitedknowledge available to the a...

E-commerce customers demand quick and easy access to suitable products in large purchase spaces. To support and facilitate this purchasing process to users, recommender systems (RSs) help them to find out the information that best fits their preferences and needs in an overloaded search space. These systems require the elicitation of customers’ preferences. However, this elicitation process is ...

making capital and investment is the main driving forces of economic development. based on the investment sensitivity to the changes of some of macro-economic variables and risk and uncertainty, the present study evaluated the effective factors on investment in private sector in iran during 1980-2007. at first, the uncertainty variables of real informal exchange rate, nominal interest rate and ...

With the popularization of concept sustainability in traditional wickerwork, wickerwork lamps have become most popular production. When customers purchase lamp products, Kansei consensus has a key factor influencing communication between manufacturers and customers. Therefore, purpose this paper is to explore product design solutions for that meet emotional satisfaction users. Firstly, three-le...

We study the robust capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) under demand uncertainty, which determines a minimum cost delivery of a product to geographically dispersed customers using capacity-constrained vehicles. Contrary to the deterministic CVRP, which postulates that the customer demands for the product are deterministic and known, the robust CVRP models the customer demands as random v...