Automated strategy searches in an electronic goods market: Learning and complex price schedules

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 31-40

  Brooks, Christopher H ^a   Fay, Scott ^a   Das, Rajarshi ^b   MacKie Mason, Jeffrey K ^a   Kephart, Jeffrey O ^b   Durfee, Edmund H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED LEARNING; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTRONIC GOODS; INFORMATION GOODS; NON-STATIONARY ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION CHANGE; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; STRATEGIC PRICING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY;

COSTS;

EID: 0011979798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/336992.337000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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