Reinforcement learning applications in dynamic pricing of retail markets

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce, CEC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 339-346

  Raju, C V L ^a   Narahari, Y ^a   Ravikumar, K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Consumer electronics; Costs; Electronic commerce; Laboratories; Machine learning; Machine learning algorithms; Pricing; Procurement; Uncertainty; Web and internet services

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMERCE; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; COSTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; LABORATORIES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SALES;

ACTOR-CRITIC ALGORITHM; INTERNET SERVICES; MARKOVIAN GAMES; MULTI-AGENT ENVIRONMENT; PROCUREMENT; Q-LEARNING ALGORITHMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TECHNIQUES; UNCERTAINTY;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84944045450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COEC.2003.1210269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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