Dynamic pricing decision for perishable goods: A Q-learning approach

2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yan, Cheng ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamic pricing; Partial obserbable Markov decision process; Q learning

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EDUCATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DYNAMIC PRICING; OPTIMAL DYNAMIC PRICING; PARTIAL OBSERBABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; PERISHABLE GOODS; PERISHABLE ITEMS; Q-LEARNING; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 58049110089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WiCom.2008.2786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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