Pricing information bundles in a dynamic environment

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 180-190

  Kephart, Jeffrey O ^a   Brooks, Christopher H ^b   Das, Rajarshi ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; MARKETING; OPTIMIZATION; PURCHASING; SCHEDULING;

CONSUMER DEMAND; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PRICE SCHEDULE; PROFITS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0003329948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/501158.501178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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