Optimal control of a revenue management system with dynamic pricing facing linear demand

Optimal Control Applications and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 323-347

  Chou, Fee Seng ^a   Parlar, Mahmut ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic pricing; Optimal control; Quadratic programming; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

DECISION PROBLEM; DYNAMIC PRICING; PONTRYAGIN'S PRINCIPLE; REVENUE MANAGEMENT;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846072533     PISSN: 01432087     EISSN: 10991514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oca.785     Document Type: Article

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