Adaptive strategies for Dynamic Pricing agents

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 323-328

  Ramezani, Sara ^a   Bosman, Peter A N ^a   Poutré, Han La ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE DYNAMICS; ADAPTIVE STRATEGY; AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED SOFTWARES; CUSTOMER VALUATION; DEMAND FUNCTION; DYNAMIC PRICING; MARKET DYNAMICS; OFFLINE; PRICING STRATEGY; REVENUE MANAGEMENT; TIME HORIZONS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMMERCE; DESIGN; ECONOMICS; FUNCTIONS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OPTIMIZATION; SALES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COSTS;

EID: 80155155994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2011.193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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