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Beste Basciftci
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4ranked-venue papers
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3since 2021 · last 2026
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Theory of computation · 2 · 2 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Transit Network Design with Two-Level Demand Uncertainties: A Machine Learning and Contextual Stochastic Optimization Framework
Hongzhao Guan, Beste Basciftci, Pascal Van Hentenryck |
CPAIOR | 2 |
| 2024 | Path-Based Formulations for the Design of On-demand Multimodal Transit Systems with Adoption AwarenessabstractThis paper reconsiders the On-Demand Multimodal Transit Systems (ODMTS) Design with Adoptions problem (ODMTS-DA) to capture the latent demand in on-demand multimodal transit systems. The ODMTS-DA is a bilevel optimization problem, for which Basciftci and Van Hentenryck proposed an exact combinatorial Benders decomposition. Unfortunately, their proposed algorithm only finds high-quality solutions for medium-sized cities and is not practical for large metropolitan areas. The main contribution of this paper is to propose a new path-based optimization model, called P-Path, to address these computational difficulties. The key idea underlying P-Path is to enumerate two specific sets of paths which capture the essence of the choice model associated with the adoption behavior of riders. With the help of these path sets, the ODMTS-DA can be formulated as a single-level mixed-integer programming model. In addition, the paper presents preprocessing techniques that can reduce the size of the model significantly. P-Path is evaluated on two comprehensive case studies: the midsize transit system of the Ann Arbor – Ypsilanti region in Michigan (which was studied by Basciftci and Van Hentenryck) and the large-scale transit system for the city of Atlanta. The experimental results show that P-Path solves the Michigan ODMTS-DA instances in a few minutes, bringing more than two orders of magnitude improvements compared with the existing approach. For Atlanta, the results show that P-Path can solve large-scale ODMTS-DA instances (about 17 millions variables and 37 millions constraints) optimally in a few hours or in a few days. These results show the tremendous computational benefits of P-Path which provides a scalable approach to the design of on-demand multimodal transit systems with latent demand. History: Accepted by Andrea Lodi, Area Editor for Design & Analysis of Algorithms—Discrete. Funding: This work was partially supported by National Science Foundation Leap-HI [Grant 1854684] and the Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC): Transit - Serving Communities Optimally, Responsively, and Efficiently (T-SCORE) from the U.S. Department of Transportation [69A3552047141]. Supplemental Material: The software that supports the findings of this study is available within the paper and its Supplemental Information ( https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/suppl/10.1287/ijoc.2023.0014 ) as well as from the IJOC GitHub software repository ( https://github.com/INFORMSJoC/2023.0014 ). The complete IJOC Software and Data Repository is available at https://informsjoc.github.io/ . Hongzhao Guan, Beste Basciftci, Pascal Van Hentenryck |
INFORMS J. Comput. | 2 |
| 2024 | An Integrated Predictive Maintenance and Operations Scheduling Framework for Power Systems Under Failure UncertaintyabstractMaintenance planning plays a key role in power system operations under uncertainty as it helps providers and operators ensure a reliable and secure power grid. This paper studies a short-term condition-based integrated maintenance planning with operations scheduling problem while considering the possible unexpected failure of generators as well as transmission lines. We formulate this problem as a two-stage stochastic mixed-integer program with failure scenarios sampled from the sensor-driven remaining lifetime distributions of the individual system elements whereas a joint chance constraint consisting of Poisson Binomial random variables is introduced to account for failure risks. Because of its intractability, we develop a cutting-plane method to obtain an exact reformulation of the joint chance constraint by proposing a separation subroutine and deriving stronger cuts as part of this procedure. We also derive a second-order cone programming-based safe approximation of this constraint to solve large-scale instances. Furthermore, we propose a decomposition algorithm implemented in parallel fashion for solving the resulting stochastic program, which exploits the features of the integer L-shaped method and the special structure of the maintenance and operations scheduling problem to derive valid and stronger sets of optimality cuts. We further present preprocessing steps over transmission line flow constraints to identify redundancies. To illustrate the computational performance and efficiency of our algorithm compared with more conventional maintenance approaches, we design a computational study focusing on a weekly plan with daily maintenance and hourly operational decisions involving detailed unit commitment subproblems. Our computational results on various IEEE instances demonstrate the computational efficiency of the proposed approach with reliable and cost-effective maintenance and operational schedules. History: Accepted by Andrea Lodi, Area Editor for Design & Analysis of Algorithms—Discrete. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2022.0154 . Bahar Cennet Okumusoglu, Beste Basciftci, Burak Kocuk |
INFORMS J. Comput. | 2 |
| 2020 | Bilevel Optimization for On-Demand Multimodal Transit Systems
Beste Basciftci, Pascal Van Hentenryck |
CPAIOR | 1 |