Pricing in queues without demand information

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 401-411

  Haviv, Moshe ^a   Randhawa, Ramandeep S ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic pricing; Revenue optimization; Robust optimization; Static pricing

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; SALES;

ARRIVAL RATES; CUSTOMER VALUATION; DELAY SENSITIVE; DEMAND INFORMATION; DYNAMIC PRICING; REVENUE OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; SOCIAL OPTIMIZATIONS;

COSTS;

EID: 84904662768     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.2014.0479     Document Type: Article

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