New Heuristics for the Operation of an Ambulance Fleet under Uncertainty

This paper proposes and evaluates a set of new heuristics for ambulance selection and reassignment decisions under uncertainty, demonstrating through a rollout approach applied to real-world emergency medical service data that these methods significantly outperform existing strategies in reducing response times while maintaining real-time computational efficiency.

Vincent Guigues, Anton J. Kleywegt, Victor Hugo NascimentoTue, 10 Ma🔢 math

Robustness to Model Approximation, Model Learning From Data, and Sample Complexity in Wasserstein Regular MDPs

This paper establishes robustness bounds for discrete-time stochastic optimal control under Wasserstein model approximation, demonstrating that the performance loss of policies derived from approximate models is controlled by the Wasserstein-1 distance between transition kernels, thereby enabling rigorous sample complexity analysis for empirical model and noise distribution learning where stronger convergence criteria may fail.

Yichen Zhou, Yanglei Song, Serdar YükselTue, 10 Ma🔢 math

A fresh look into variational analysis of C2\mathcal C^2-partly smooth functions

This paper provides a fresh variational analysis of C2\mathcal C^2-partly smooth functions by establishing their strict twice epi-differentiability and calculating their second subderivatives, while demonstrating that the converse does not hold and applying these results to the stability of generalized equations and the asymptotic analysis of sample average approximations.

Nguyen T. V. Hang, Ebrahim SarabiTue, 10 Ma🔢 math