Dynamic Pricing and Reinforcement Learning

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2916-2921

  Carvalho, Alexandre X ^a   Puterman, Martin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SALES; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

DYNAMIC PRICING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141815596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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