Blind network revenue management

Operations Research

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1537-1550

  Besbes, Omar ^a   Zeevi, Assaf ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic optimality; Curse of dimensionality; Learning; Minimax; Network; Nonparametric estimation; Pricing; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC OPTIMALITY; CURSE OF DIMENSIONALITY; LEARNING; MINIMAX; NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS; REVENUE MANAGEMENT;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; FUNCTIONS; MANAGEMENT; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OPTIMIZATION;

COSTS;

EID: 84871887590     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1120.1103     Document Type: Article

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