摘要: |
Online platforms are emerging as a powerful mechanism for matching resources to requests. In the setting of freight, the requests arrive from shippers, who have a diverse collection of goods. The resources are supplied by shippers (trucks), and have various physical constraints (driver�s route preferences, carrying capacity, geographic preferences, etc.). Online platforms are emerging that (a) learn the characteristics of shippers and carriers, and (b) efficiently match goods to trucks based on such learning.
This project will develop algorithms for such online resource allocation. This is a challenging problem, due to the complexity of the learning tasks. Such algorithms can have considerable impact on efficiently using trucking resources. |