Learning competitive pricing strategies by multi-agent reinforcement learning

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 27, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 2207-2218

  Kutschinski, Erich ^a   Uthmann, Thomas ^b   Polani, Daniel ^c  

^a Wiskunde en Informatica   (Netherlands)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent based computational economics; Distributed simulation; Dynamic pricing; Multi agent reinforcement learning; Q learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038330311     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1889(02)00122-7     Document Type: Article

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