Pricing to accelerate demand learning in dynamic assortment planning for perishable products

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 555-565

  Talebian, Masoud ^a   Boland, Natashia ^a   Savelsbergh, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assortment planning; Bayesian updating; Demand learning; Retailing; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

PROFITABILITY; SALES;

ASSORTMENT PLANNING; BAYESIAN UPDATING; DEMAND LEARNING; RETAILING; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

COSTS;

EID: 84899463949     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.01.045     Document Type: Article

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