Adaptive strategies for price markdown in a multi-unit descending price auction: A comparative study

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 374-379

  Gupta, Manish ^a   Ravikumar, K ^a   Kumar, Manoj ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Dutch Auction; Dynamic price markdown; Q Learning; Reinforcement Learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

SALES;

EID: 0038344813     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2002.1168003     Document Type: Article

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