Credits & Acknowledgements

Credits &
Acknowledgements

LCO Hotel Optimizer is built on decades of rigorous mathematical research and visionary leadership in lexicographic optimization.

Founding Research Paper

Lexicographic Constraint Optimization in Hotel Management

Dynamic Online Control, Reinforcement Learning Adaptation, and Multi-Property Cloud/Quantum Integration

Antonios Valamontes

Research Director, Kapodistrian Academy of Science (KAS)

Tampa, Florida — March 2026

Foundational Lexicographic Research

University of Patras, Greece

The core mathematical methods — CAG sequential partitioning and lexicographic floors — were pioneered by the research team at the University of Patras.

C. D. Nikolakakou

T. N. Grapsa

I. A. Nikas

G. S. Androulakis

Key Papers

›"A sequential approach for unconstrained optimization via a partitioning technique" (2014)

›"A modified Newton direction for unconstrained optimization"

›"Integrating Taylor's expansion on the lexicographic approach for unconstrained optimization"

LCO Research Team

Kapodistrian Academy of Science

Special thanks to the entire Lexicographic Constraint Optimization (LCO) Research Team at Kapodistrian Academy of Science for model verification, simulation testing, RL implementation, and multi-property orchestration.

Model Verification

Simulation Testing

RL Implementation

Multi-Property

Thank You

We are deeply grateful for the decades of foundational mathematical research from the University of Patras team and for the pioneering contributions of Antonios Valamontes.

This platform stands on the shoulders of their important work, and we are truly honored to bring Lexicographic Constraint Optimization to practical use in hotel management.