Profitability in product line pricing and composition with manufacturing commonalities

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1782-1797

  Day, Jamison M ^a   Venkataramanan, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Genetic algorithms; Integer programming; Marketing; Pricing

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

LINEAR DISCRETE REDUCTION MODEL; MANUFACTURING COMMONALITIES; PRODUCT LINE PRICING;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33748938704     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.05.013     Document Type: Article

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