An application of yield management for internet service providers

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 348-362

  Nair, Suresh K ^a,b   Bapna, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous time MDP; Internet service providers; Yield management

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INTERNET; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVERS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS TIME DECISION PROCESS; CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV PROCESS; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; YIELD MANAGEMENT;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0035426243     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.1023     Document Type: Article

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