Learning logistic demand curves in business-to-business pricing

Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 29-40

  Qu, Huashuai ^a   Ryzhov, Ilya O ^b   Fu, Michael C ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 84894176957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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