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Journal Articles

A tractable revenue management model for capacity allocation and overbooking over an airline network pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu, Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, forthcoming.

A new dynamic programming decomposition method for the network revenue management problem with customer choice behavior pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu, Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.

A dynamic programming decomposition method for making overbooking decisions over an airline network pdf
A. Erdelyi & H. Topaloglu, INFORMS Journal on Computing, forthcoming.

Computing time-dependent bid-prices in network revenue management problems pdf technical report
H. Topaloglu & S. Kunnumkal, Transportation Science, forthcoming.

Approximate dynamic programming for ambulance redeployment pdf
M.S. Maxwell, M. Restrepo, S.G. Henderson & H. Topaloglu, INFORMS Journal on Computing, forthcoming.

A stochastic approximation method with max-norm projections and its applications to the Q-Learning algorithm pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu, The ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, forthcoming.

A stochastic approximation method for the single-leg revenue management problem with discrete demand distributions pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, forthcoming. (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.)

Using Lagrangian relaxation to compute capacity-dependent bid prices in network revenue management pdf
H. Topaloglu, Operations Research, 57, 637-649, 2009.

A tighter variant of Jensen's lower bound for stochastic programs and separable approximations to recourse functions pdf
H. Topaloglu, European Journal of Operational Research, 199, 315-322, 2009.

Erlang loss models for the static deployment of ambulances pdf
M. Restrepo, S.G. Henderson & H. Topaloglu, Health Care Management Science, 12, 67-79, 2009.

Computing protection level policies for dynamic capacity allocation problems by using stochastic approximation methods pdf
A. Erdelyi & H. Topaloglu, IIE Transactions, 41, 498-510, 2009.

On the asymptotic optimality of the randomized linear program for network revenue management pdf
H. Topaloglu, European Journal of Operational Research, Special Issue on Pricing and Revenue Management, 197, 884-896, 2009.

Separable approximations for joint capacity control and overbooking decisions in network revenue management pdf
A. Erdelyi & H. Topaloglu, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, 8, 3-20, 2009.

A duality-based relaxation and decomposition approach for inventory distribution systems pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu, Naval Research Logistics, 55, 612-631, 2008.

A refined deterministic linear program for the network revenue management problem with customer choice behavior pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu, Naval Research Logistics, 55, 563-580, 2008.

A stochastic approximation method to compute bid prices in network revenue management problems pdf
H. Topaloglu, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 20, 596-610, 2008.

Using stochastic approximation methods to compute optimal base-stock levels in inventory inventory control problems pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu, Operations Research, 56, 646-664, 2008.

Exploiting the structural properties of the underlying Markov decision problem in Q-learning algorithm pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 20, 288-301, 2008.

Price discounts in exchange for reduced customer demand variability and applications to advance demand information acquisition pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu, International Journal of Production Economics, 111, 543-561, 2008.

Incorporating pricing decisions into the stochastic dynamic fleet management problem pdf
H. Topaloglu & W.B. Powell, Transportation Science, 41, 281-301, 2007.

Incorporating the pricing decisions into dynamic fleet management models pdf
G.J. King & H. Topaloglu, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 58, 1064-1074, 2007.

Sensitivity analysis of a dynamic fleet management model using approximate dynamic programming pdf
H. Topaloglu & W.B. Powell, Operations Research, 55, 319-331, 2007.

Approximate dynamic programming methods for an inventory allocation problem under uncertainty pdf
H. Topaloglu & S. Kunnumkal, Naval Research Logistics, 53, 822-841, 2006.

A parallelizable dynamic fleet management model with random travel times pdf
H. Topaloglu, European Journal of Operational Research, 175, 782-805, 2006.

Dynamic programming approximations for stochastic, time-staged integer multicommodity flow problems pdf
H. Topaloglu & W.B. Powell, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 18, 31-42, 2006.

An approximate dynamic programming approach for a product distribution problem pdf
H. Topaloglu, IIE Transactions, 37, 697-710, 2005.

A distributed decision making structure for dynamic resource allocation using nonlinear functional approximations pdf
H. Topaloglu & W.B. Powell, Operations Research, 53, 281-297, 2005.

Learning algorithms for separable approximations of discrete stochastic optimization problems pdf
W.B. Powell, A. Ruszczynski & H. Topaloglu, Mathematics of Operations Research, 29, 814-836, 2004.

An algorithm for approximating piecewise linear concave functions from sample gradients pdf
H. Topaloglu & W.B. Powell, Operations Research Letters, 31, 66-76, 2003.

Book Chapters

A parallelizable and approximate dynamic programming-based dynamic fleet management model with random travel times and multiple vehicle types pdf
H. Topaloglu, in Dynamic Fleet Management: Concepts, Systems, Algorithms and Case Studies, V.S. Zeimpekis, G.M. Giaglis, C.D. Tarantilis & I. Minis, eds., forthcoming.

Approximate dynamic programming for large-scale resource allocation problems pdf draft long version
W.B. Powell & H. Topaloglu, in TutORials in Operations Research, M.P. Johnson, B. Norman & N. Secomandi, eds., 2006.

Fleet management pdf
W.B. Powell & H. Topaloglu, in Applications of Stochastic Programming, Math Programming Society – SIAM Series in Optimization, S. Wallace & W. Ziemba, eds., 2005.

Stochastic programming in transportation and logistics pdf
W.B. Powell & H. Topaloglu, in Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science,  volume on Stochastic Programming, A. Shapiro & A. Ruszczynski, eds., 2003.

Work-in-Progress

Cargo capacity management with allotments and spot market demand pdf
Y. Levin, M. Nediak & H. Topaloglu.

Linear programming based decomposition methods for inventory distribution systems pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu.

A stochastic approximation algorithm to compute bid prices for joint capacity allocation and overbooking over an airline network pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu.

Technical note: Robust logit assortments pdf
P. Rusmevichientong & H. Topaloglu.

A stochastic approximation algorithm for making pricing decisions in network revenue management problems pdf
S. Kunnumkal & H. Topaloglu.

Using decomposition methods to solve pricing problems in network revenue management pdf
A. Erdelyi & H. Topaloglu.

Approximate dynamic programming for dynamic capacity allocation pdf
A. Erdelyi & H. Topaloglu.