The d-Level nested logit model: Assortment and price optimization problems

Operations Research

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 325-341

  Li, Guang ^a   Rusmevichientong, Paat ^a   Topaloglu, Huseyin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortment planning; Customer choice model; Multi level nested logit; Price optimization. Area of review: Operations and Supply Chains

Indexed keywords

COSTS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SUPPLY CHAINS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AREA OF REVIEWS; ASSORTMENT OPTIMIZATION; ASSORTMENT PLANNING; CUSTOMER CHOICE MODEL; GRADIENT-BASED METHOD; NESTED LOGIT; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; RANDOM UTILITY MAXIMIZATIONS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84927513578     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2015.1355     Document Type: Article

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