Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: A Markov Decision Process Approach for Managing Medical Drone Deliveries   We consider the problem of optimizing the distribution operations at a drone
hub that dispatches drones to different geographic locations generating
stochastic demands for medical supplies. Drone delivery is an innovative method
that introduces many benefits, such as low-contact delivery, thereby reducing
the spread of pandemic and vaccine-preventable diseases. While we focus on
medical supply delivery for this work, drone delivery is suitable for many
other items, including food, postal parcels, and e-commerce. In this paper, our
goal is to address drone delivery challenges related to the stochastic demands
of different geographic locations. We consider different classes of demand
related to geographic locations that require different flight ranges, which is
directly related to the amount of charge held in a drone battery. We classify
the stochastic demands based on their distance from the drone hub, use a Markov
decision process to model the problem, and perform computational tests using
realistic data representing a prominent drone delivery company. We solve the
problem using a reinforcement learning method and show its high performance
compared with the exact solution found using dynamic programming. Finally, we
analyze the results and provide insights for managing the drone hub operations.

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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex