Revenue maximization through dynamic pricing under unknown market behaviour

OpenAccess Series in Informatics

Volumn 22, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-20

  Morales Enciso, Sergio ^a   Branke, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic pricing; EGO; Gaussian processes for classification; revenue management

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; INFERENCE ENGINES;

CREATIVE COMMONS; CUSTOMER RESPONSE; DYNAMIC PRICING; EFFICIENT GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; GAUSSIAN PROCESS FOR CLASSIFICATION; MARKET BEHAVIOURS; MEMORYLESS; MULTI-MODAL; REVENUE MANAGEMENT; REVENUE MAXIMIZATION;

SALES;

EID: 84883623182     PISSN: 21906807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SCOR.2012.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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