Dynamic pricing with limited supply

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 74-91

  Babaioff, Moshe ^a   Dughmi, Shaddin ^a   Kleinberg, Robert ^b   Slivkins, Aleksandrs ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic pricing; mechanism design; multi armed bandits; revenue maximization

Indexed keywords

DEMAND DISTRIBUTION; DYNAMIC PRICING; EXPECTED REVENUE; LOWER BOUNDS; MECHANISM DESIGN; MULTI ARMED BANDIT; OFFLINE; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; POTENTIAL BUYERS; REVENUE MAXIMIZATION; REVENUE MAXIMIZING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MACHINE DESIGN;

COSTS;

EID: 84863515685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2229012.2229023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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