Asymptotic optimality of myopic optimization in trial-offer markets with social influence

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2016-January, Issue , 2016, Pages 2458-2464

  Abeliuk, Andres ^a   Berbeglia, Gerardo ^b   Maldonado, Felipe ^c   Van Hentenryck, Pascal ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMERCE;

ASYMPTOTIC OPTIMALITY; MARKET EFFICIENCY; MYOPIC POLICY; QUALITY OF PRODUCT; SOCIAL INFLUENCE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 85006108488     PISSN: 10450823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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