Sardine: Dynamic Seller Strategies in an Auction Marketplace

EC 2000 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 128-134

  Morris, Joan ^a   Ree, Peter ^a   Maes, Pattie ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

airline industry; auctions; dynamic pricing strategies; electronic commerce

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; COSTS;

ADAPTIVE PRICING; AIRLINE INDUSTRY; AUCTION; DEMAND FORECASTING; DYNAMIC PRICING; DYNAMIC PRICING STRATEGY; FINITE NUMBER; MARKET SIMULATORS; PRICING STRATEGY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 84956512010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/352871.352885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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