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  1. The Benefits of Delay to Online Decision Making

    Article • Management Science, August 2025, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  2. Multi-item Online Order Fulfillment in a Two-Layer Network

    Article • Operations Research, April 2025, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  3. Flock Management for Solar Grazing

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  4. Auto-Formulating Dynamic Programming Problems with Large Language Models

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  5. Losing Sales to Gain: Mitigating Demand Spillover in Inventory Networks

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  6. DeepStock: Reinforcement Learning with Policy Regularizations for Inventory Management

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  7. Designing Sparse Graphs for Stochastic Matching with an Application to Middle-Mile Transportation Management

    Article • Management Science, March 2024, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  8. UCB-Type Learning Algorithms with Kaplan–Meier Estimator for Lost-Sales Inventory Models with Lead Times

    Article • Operations Research, February 2024, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  9. VC Theory for Inventory Policies

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2024, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  10. AI vs. Human Buyers: A Study of Alibaba’s Inventory Replenishment System

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, September 2023, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  11. Asymptotic Optimality of Constant-Order Policies in Joint Pricing and Inventory Models

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, April 2023, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  12. Assortment Planning for Recommendations at Checkout Under Inventory Constraints

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, February 2023, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  13. Real-Time Personalized Order Holding

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  14. Distributionally Robust Inventory Control When Demand Is a Martingale

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, January 2022, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  15. JD.com: Operations Research Algorithms Drive Intelligent Warehouse Robots to Work

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, January 2022, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  16. Designing Sparse Graphs for Stochastic Matching with an Application to Middle-Mile Transportation Management

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  17. AI vs. Human Buyers: A Study of Alibaba's Inventory Replenishment System

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  18. The Benefits of Delay to Online Decision-Making

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  19. Real-Time Omnichannel Fulfillment Optimization

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  20. 1.79-Approximation Algorithms for Continuous Review Single-Sourcing Lost-Sales and Dual-Sourcing Inventory Models

    Article • Operations Research, November 2021, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  21. On a Deterministic Approximation of Inventory Systems with Sequential Service-Level Constraints

    Article • Operations Research, February 2021, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  22. Asymptotic Analysis of a Remanufacturing System with Non-Identical Lead Times

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  23. Dual-Sourcing, Dual-Mode Dynamic Stochastic Inventory Models: A Review

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  24. UCB-Type Learning Algorithms for Lost-Sales Inventory Models with Lead Times

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  25. Error Noted in “Robust Contract Designs: Linear Contracts and Moral Hazard” by Yu and Kong (2020)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  26. Understanding the Performance of Capped Base-Stock Policies in Lost-Sales Inventory Models

    Article • Operations Research, December 2020, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  27. Time (in)consistency of multistage distributionally robust inventory models with moment constraints

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, July 2020, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  28. Time Inconsistency of Optimal Policies of Distributionally Robust Inventory Models

    Article • Operations Research, June 2020, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  29. Multi-Item Online Order Fulfillment: A Competitive Analysis

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  30. Asymptotic Optimality of Constant-Order Policies in Joint Pricing and Inventory Control Models

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2019, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  31. A 1.79-approximation Algorithm for a Continuous Review Lost-Sales Inventory Model

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2019, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  32. Asymptotic Optimality of Tailored Base-Surge Policies in Dual-Sourcing Inventory Systems

    Article • Management Science, January 2018, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  33. Asymptotic Optimality of Order-Up-To Control for Stochastic Inventory Systems with Sequential Probabilistic Service Level Constraints

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  34. Risk-Based Distributionally Robust Optimal Power Flow With Dynamic Line Rating

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  35. On the Performance of Tailored Base-Surge Policies: Theory and Application at Walmart.Com

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2017, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  36. Optimality Gap of Constant-Order Policies Decays Exponentially in the Lead Time for Lost Sales Models

    Article • Operations Research, December 2016, INFORMS

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  37. Dynamic Recommendation at Checkout under Inventory Constraint

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin

  38. Bounds for nested law invariant coherent risk measures

    Article • Operations Research Letters, November 2012, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Linwei Xin