Dynamic pricing and learning: Historical origins, current research, and new directions

Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-18

  den Boer, Arnoud V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84927660607     PISSN: 18767354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sorms.2015.03.001     Document Type: Review

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