Gerardo Berbeglia

Gerardo Berbeglia joined Melbourne Business School in 2012.

Gerardo has a PhD in Operations Research from the Université de Montréal, and a Master in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires. Prior to joining MBS, Gerardo was a Senior Scientist at ExPretio Technologies Inc and, later, a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University.

Gerardo’s research has been published in leading journals and conference proceedings, including Management Science, Transportation Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research Retters, Algorithmica, Journal of Mathematical and Economics, ACM conference on Economics and Computation (EC), Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE) and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. His recent research focuses on revenue management and quantitative models that account for social influence in online markets.

Gerardo teaches Operations, Optimisation and Decision Making, and Supply Chain Analytics on the MBA programs and Master of Business Analytics program. He received the MBS Teaching Excellence Award in 2019 ,2020, and 2021.

Selected Publications

2022

Journal Articles Refereed

A Comparative Empirical Study of Discrete Choice Models in Retail Operations. Management Science, 68:6, 4005-4023, 2022 (pdf)

(with Agustín Garassino and Gustavo Vulcano)

2021

Tight bounds on the relative performances of pricing optimization mechanisms in storable good markets. Discrete Optimization, 42:100671

(with Shant Boodaghians and Adrian Vetta)

Market Segmentation in Online Platforms. European Journal of Operational Research. 295:3, 1025-1041, 2021 (pdf)

(with Franco Berbeglia and Pascal Van Hentenryck)

2020

Assortment optimisation under a general discrete choice model: A tight analysis of revenue-ordered assortments. Algorithmica, 82 (4), 681-720, 2020 (pdf)

(with Gwenaël Joret)

2019

Journal Articles Refereed

Assortment Optimization under the Sequential Multinomial Logit Model. European Journal of Operational Research, 273 (3), 1052-1064, 2019 (pdf)

(with Alvaro Flores and Pascal Van Hentenryck)

Pricing Policies for Selling Indivisible Storable Goods to Strategic Consumers. Annals of Operations Research, 274, 131-154, 2019 (pdf)

(with Gautam Rayaprolu and Adrian Vetta)

The finite horizon, undiscounted, durable goods monopoly problem with finitely many consumers. Journal of Mathematical Economics. 82, 171-183, 2019 (pdf)

(with Peter Sloan and Adrian Vetta)

2018

Journal Articles Refereed

Popularity signals in trial-offer markets with social influence and position bias. European Journal of Operational Research. 266(2):775-793, 2018. (pdf)

(with Felipe Maldonado, Pascal Van Hentenryck and Franco Berbeglia)

Conference Papers Refereed

Tight Bounds on the Relative Performances of Pricing Mechanisms in Storable Good Markets. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT) 2018, pages 267-271. (pdf)

(with Shant Boodaghians and Adrian Vetta)

2017

Journal Articles Refereed

Transient Dynamics in Trial-Offer Markets with Social Influence: Trade-offs between Appeal and Quality. PLOS ONE 12(7):e0180040, 2017.

(with Edgar Altszyler, Franco Berbeglia and Pascal Van Hentenryck)

Conference Papers Refereed

Assortment optimisation under a general discrete choice model: A tight analysis of revenue-ordered assortments. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) 2017

(with Gwenaël Joret)

2016

Journal Articles Refereed

Assortment optimization under a multinomial logit model with position bias and social influence. 4OR, 14 (1), 57-75, 2016.(pdf)

(with Andres Abeliuk, Manuel Cebrian and Pascal van Hentenryck)

Discrete choice models based on random walks. Operations Research Letters. 44(2), 234–237, 2016.(pdf)

Conference Papers Refereed

Aligning popularity and quality in online cultural markets. Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2016.

(with P. Van Hentenryck, A. Abeliuk, F. Berbeglia and F. Maldonado)

Asymptotic optimality of myopic optimization in trial-offer markets with social influence. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

(with P. Van Hentenryck, A. Abeliuk and F. Maldonado)

Interdependent scheduling games. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016.(pdf)

2015

Journal Articles Refereed

Bargaining mechanisms for one-way games. Games. 6 (3), 347-367, 2015.

(with A. Abeliuk and P. Van Hentenryck)

The Benefits of Social Influence in Optimized Cultural Markets. PLoS One. 10 (4), e0121934, 2015.

(with A. Abeliuk, M. Cebrian and P. Van Hentenryck)

2014

Conference Papers Refereed

Bounds on the Profitability of a Durable Good Monopolist. Web and Internet Economics Conference (WINE 2014).

(with Peter Sloan and Adrian Vetta)

2012

Journal Articles Refereed

A Hybrid Tabu Search and Constraint Programming Algorithm for the Dynamic Dial-a-Ride Problem. INFORMS Journal on Computing. 24, 343-355, 2012.

(with J-.F. Cordeau and G. Laporte)

Feasibility of the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Fixed Partial Routes: A Complexity Analysis. Transportation Science. 46 (3), 359-373, 2012.

(with G. Pesant and L-.M. Rousseau)

2011

Journal Articles Refereed

Checking the feasibility of dial-a-ride instances using constraint programming. Transportation Science. 45 (3), 399-412, 2011.

(with G. Pesant and L-.M. Rousseau)

2010

Journal Articles Refereed

Dynamic pickup and delivery problems. European Journal of Operational Research. 202 (1), 8-15, 2010.

(with J-.F. Cordeau and G. Laporte)

2009

Journal Articles Refereed

Counting feasible solutions of the traveling salesman problem with pickups and deliveries is #P-complete. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 157:2541-2547, 2009.

(with Gena Hahn)

The counting complexity of a simple scheduling problem. Operations Research Letters. 37:365-367, 2009.

2007

Journal Articles Refereed

Static pickup and delivery problems: a classification scheme and survey. TOP 15:1-31, 2007.

(with J-.F. Cordeau, I. Gribkovskaia and G. Laporte)

Awards

2021: MBS Teaching Excellence Award

2020: MBS Teaching Excellence Award

2019: MBS Teaching Excellence Award

2018: International Fellowship Chair, LUISS University, Italy.

2010 Mercure Award: Best thesis of the year at HEC Montréal

2010 Cecil Graham Award: Best doctoral dissertation in applied mathematics of the year in Canada