Online algorithms are central to solving resource allocation and matching challenges in dynamic environments where decisions must be made without complete knowledge of future events. Research in this ...

Receiving a heart transplant is a matter of life and death for many patients. Every time a heart becomes available, a “match run” is created to generate a list of transplant candidates ranked by an ...

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) plays a vital role in smart cities. Task allocation is a crucial problem in spatial crowdsourcing, which directly determines the quality and efficiency of task completion.

The Adaptive Asset Allocation (AAA) portfolio combines two different tactical approaches (momentum and minimum variance) into one algorithm. The intention of this portfolio recipe is to optimize ...

Elzayn, Hadi, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, and Zachary Schutzman. "Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems." Proceedings of the ...

The rate of offers per candidate represents a threefold increase compared with 2015. (HealthDay News) — The number of kidney transplants performed annually in the United States has increased steadily, ...

Over the course of six months in 2016, writer James Bloodworth worked for four companies: Amazon, in one of its warehouses; a home-care provider; insurer Admiral’s call centre; and Uber. Drivers for ...