A constraint logic programming algorithm for modeling dynamic pricing

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-77

  Oliveira, Fernando S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Analysis of algorithms; Artificial intelligence; Constraint logic programming; Dynamic pricing; Revenue management; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349128466     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1060.0218     Document Type: Article

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