Stochastic assignment games for designing subsidies for multiple service providers
Research Seminar Series
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Date
20 Nov 2025
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Organiser
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, PolyU
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Time
09:30 - 11:00
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Venue
Online via ZOOM
Speaker
Prof. Joseph Chow
Remarks
Meeting link will be sent to successful registrants. If you have enquiries regarding E-certificate after the seminar, please contact david.kuo@polyu.edu.hk.
Summary
Consider a platform economy involving multiple service providers and a set of buyers. The classic one-to-one assignment game forms coalitions between these buyers and sellers and determines the range of cost transfers between them that make the matches stable. In a stochastic setting, the coalitions perceive the payoffs with noise. In the many-to-many extension to mobility services, matching occurs at the path level. An equivalent link-based formulation avoids path enumeration while matching service users with providers to design subsidies from the platform to the providers. Applications to last mile mobility hub design and urban air mobility system design are highlighted.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Joseph Chow
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Urban Engineering, New York University, USA
Prof. Joseph Chow is an Institute Associate Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Civil and Urban Engineering Department with affiliations at CUSP and Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management. He is an NSF CAREER award recipient, a former Canada Research Chair, and the co-founding Deputy Director of the C2SMART Center at NYU. He is the Lead Scientific Advisor at NeXT Modular Vehicles and affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He is a former Cluster Chair for the Transportation Science & Logistics Society and elected Urban Transportation Planning & Modeling SIG Chair at INFORMS. He has published over 100 journal articles since 2010 and is an editor for four journals: Transportation Research Part B and Part C, INFORMS Service Science, and Transportation Research Record. Dr. Prof. Chow received his PhD ('10) at UC Irvine and his MEng (’01) and BS (’00) at Cornell University.
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