Price guarantees in dynamic pricing and revenue management

Operations Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-97

  Levin, Yuri ^a   McGill, Jeff ^a   Nediak, Mikhail ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Applications; Dynamic programming optimal control; Inventory production: perishable aging items, marketing pricing, uncertainty; Probability: stochastic model applications; Programming; nonlinear

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SALES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

DYNAMIC PRICING; FIXED TIME HORIZON; REVENUE MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC MODEL APPLICATIONS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 34247514465     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0344     Document Type: Article

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