Assortment optimization under a multinomial logit model with position bias and social influence

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Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 57-75

  Abeliuk, Andrés ^a   Berbeglia, Gerardo ^b   Cebrian, Manuel ^a   Van Hentenryck, Pascal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortment optimization; Marketing; Social influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959126692     PISSN: 16194500     EISSN: 16142411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10288-015-0302-y     Document Type: Article

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