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Elodie Adida
Assistant Professor

Engineering Diploma (2002)
Ecole Centrale Paris (France)

Ph.D., Operations Research (2006)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selected Publications

• E. Adida and G. Perakis, "A Robust Optimization Approach to Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorders". Mathematical Programming Special Issue on Robust Optimization Series B, Vol. 107 (1-2), pp 97 - 129, June 2006.
• E. Adida and G. Perakis, "A Nonlinear Continuous Time Optimal Control Model of Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorders", May 2004. Under review in Operations Research.
• E. Adida and G. Perakis, "Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control: Uncertainty and Competition. Part A: Existence of a Nash Equilibrium", December 2006. Submitted for publication in Mathematical Programming.
• E. Adida and G. Perakis, "Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control: Uncertainty and Competition. Part B: An Algorithm for the Normalized Nash Equilibrium", December 2006. Submitted for publication in Mathematical Programming.

Research Interests

Dr. Adida's major interest is in modeling mathematically real world decision-making problems and providing efficient ways to solve them. Her research is currently focusing on modeling the presence of uncertainty in an optimization problem in a realistic yet tractable way, via the use of the robust optimization methodology. Areas of applications include pricing and revenue management with uncertain data. She is also interested in the determination of Nash equilibriums in oligopoly systems and quantifying the loss of efficiency at an equilibrium due to the lack of coordination, in areas such as competitive supply chain management.